Birds take refuge at Tomkins Island

A few nice pictures of birds images I found:

Birds take refuge at Tomkins Island


Image by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District
Pictured: Roral Tern
SAVANNAH, Ga. –The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District used dredged material from maintaining the Savannah Harbor to construct a bird nesting island offshore between Tybee Island, Ga., and Daufuskie Island, S.C. The island was named Tomkins Island after a Savannah District employee who documented Savannah area birdlife in the 1950s. It provides rare, protected, bare-ground habitat for a variety of beach nesting birds and created additional storage capacity for dredged material containment. The Corps’ Operations Division maintains the island in a bare condition to attract beach nesting birds, while the Planning Division performs periodic inspections and conducts nesting surveys with S.C. state staff.

Birds take refuge at Tomkins Island


Image by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District
Pictured: Laughing Gull chick
SAVANNAH, Ga. –The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District used dredged material from maintaining the Savannah Harbor to construct a bird nesting island offshore between Tybee Island, Ga., and Daufuskie Island, S.C. The island was named Tomkins Island after a Savannah District employee who documented Savannah area birdlife in the 1950s. It provides rare, protected, bare-ground habitat for a variety of beach nesting birds and created additional storage capacity for dredged material containment. The Corps’ Operations Division maintains the island in a bare condition to attract beach nesting birds, while the Planning Division performs periodic inspections and conducts nesting surveys with S.C. state staff.

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