🎶: Cocteau Twins ❤️

Let’s give them space, keep our 🦮 leashed, walk/jog around flocks and not through them, and keep vehicles off the beaches where birds are roosting. Let’s make NYC a great place for all species!

📹: Benjamin Forbes

📷: Chris Allieri, Key Biscayne, Florida, September 2024

… to the Yucatán and Cuba, the Bahamas & Turks & Caicos, Piping Plovers spend up to 9 months of their year! We look forward to partnering with and supporting efforts in these locales to engage communities and protect plovers — and other shorebirds, too!

Special shoutout to the 2025 fledglings — born this summer — who just completed their first fall migrations!

The one federally-listed migratory bird species, protected under the Endangered Species Act, nesting on our city beaches, all Piping Plovers migrate & many travel 1,000 miles or more 2X each year!

Photos:
(1) Winston Qin
(2) Michelle Talich
(3) Debra Vilen
(4) Cindy Rosin

“Only if we can understand, can we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.”

photo: Vincent Camel

Please give the birds space — walk or jog AROUND flocks and NOT THROUGH them; no dogs on the beach whatsoever; no drones, bikes, fires, fireworks or kites…& for your own safety, only swim by a lifeguard. Together, let’s make this a better city for all species!

🍎 ❤️ 🐦

please DO NOT bring dogs to the beach; never ride an e-bike on the beach; & always give shorebirds space as they feed & rest (you too, photographers & birders!)

Thank you!

📷: Chris Allieri, 7/30/25, Breezy Point Tip

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It’s fall migration! So, if you see shorebird flocks at the edge of the water, please walk around groups of birds — and not through them (there’s often migratory shorebirds amongst the gulls, who deserve our respect too!); …

Their flights — which can be 1,000 miles or more — are fraught with challenges, so we must do everything we can so that they can depart as strong as possible.