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Oystercatcher Recovery Campaign Offers a Rare Success Story about Shorebird Conservation
A coalition of nonprofit and government agencies have found ways to protect and increase the American oystercatcher population.
By Jon Hurdle
Fifteen years of coordinated conservation efforts have produced a significant recovery in the U.S. population of the American oystercatcher, a bird with a distinctive bright red bill that breeds and roosts on beaches and coastal marshes, at a time when most shorebirds are declining.