In the early 2000s, Glen Mittelhauser and collaborators at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife conducted the first systematic survey of coastal Maine to document the distribution and study the winter ecology of Purple Sandpipers.
Today, MNHO’s Postdoctoral Research Associate, Elliot Johnson, is leading a renewal of that survey effort to see what has changed with Maine’s wintering Purple Sandpiper population.
Glen Mittelhauser and Lindsay Tudor tracking nano-tagged Purple Sandpipers circa 2002
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