Shorebird Census at the Bay of Panama
January 22, 2009
Western Sandpipers in the Bay of Panama
Bryan Watts and Bart Paxton from the Center for Conservation Biology of the College of William and Mary returned to Panama in October, 2008 to census shorebirds in the Bay of Panama. They had conducted a more extensive survey in 1997 when they found that well over 1 million shorebirds relied on the site for their annual migration. They were pleased to find that similar numbers were still to be found but warned that coastal development could be causing unseen damage to the population that might not be evident until it was too late.
