File:6. Celebrating 50 years of the Land and Water Conservation Fund- Cape May National Wildlife Refuge, NJ (14847984807).jpg
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English: Cape May National Wildlife Refuge is significant for a lot, but we cant talk about it without mentioning its importance to shorebirds. The refuge’s five-mile stretch along the Delaware Bay is a major resting and feeding area for migrating shorebirds and wading birds each spring. The Delaware Bay shoreline is a major shorebird staging area in North America second only to the Copper River Delta in Alaska! Each year hundreds of thousands of shorebirds stop to rest and feed during their spring migration from Central and South America to their Arctic breeding grounds. The arrival at Cape May of more than twenty shorebird species-primarily red knots, ruddy turnstones, sanderlings and semipalmated sandpipers-coincides with the horseshoe crab spawning season which occurs in May/early June. The crab eggs provide an abundant food supply, which these long-distance flyers use to replenish their energy reserves before moving on. In May, virtually the entire North American red knot population gathers along Delaware Bay beaches! LWCF has conserved 5486 acres of this Delaware Bay hot spot.
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