
Shorebirds of several different species – most prominent among them a group of red knots – gather on Delaware Bay
beaches during the spring migration stopover at Mispillion Harbor /Delaware DNREC photo: Rob Robinson
Restored Mispillion Harbor Drew Bay’s Earliest Red Knot Flocks During Stopover for Fueling Flight to Arctic Home
Early in the migratory stopover period, observers with the collaborative monitoring effort known as the Delaware Shorebird Project counted nearly 2,000 red knots in Mispillion Harbor alone on May 11, while flocks on the New Jersey side remained minimal. Counts at



