Free Event Admission / $10 Parking Fee*

All Ages

Each year shorebirds and seabirds travel to Long Island to nest along its beaches and islands. Learn about the six nesting shorebird and seabird species of our beaches, the threats they face during their nesting season and how guest can help in the conservation efforts to protect them.

Learn more about our speakers below!

* Parking fees collected 6am-6pm across Jones Beach State Park. Empire Passes also accepted.

Our Speakers:

Shelby Casas - Coastal Program Associate, Audubon New York

Prior to her role with Audubon New York, Shelby worked with Audubon Connecticut as a seasonal Coastal Waterbird technician. She started her birding journey at Clarkson University studying Golden-winged Warblers population distribution in Northern New York where she graduated with a BS in Biology and focus on Environmental Science. She has been working with shorebirds for four years and, she oversees the monitoring and stewardship for federal and state shorebirds of concern for Audubon on multiple sites across Long Island. She is based at the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary & Center in Oyster Bay.

Danielle Moore - Shorebird Technician, Audubon New York

Danielle is the South Shore field technician where her work is focusing on monitoring disturbances and their effects on important shorebirds such as, the Piping Plover and American Oystercatcher. Danielle is a recent graduate of Stony Brook University and has conducted environmental stewardship work in Colorado with the Rocky Mountain Conservancy, and in Oyster Bay with the North Shore Land Alliance. Danielle is continuing her education and passion for the environment by pursuing an M.S in ecosystems science at the University of Michigan this fall.

Photo Credits:

Piping Plover – Shelby Casas/ Audubon New York

Shelby’s Profile photo: Luke Franke/Audubon