Migratory birds will continue to find safe harbour on the South Shore thanks to a generous land donation.
The Nova Scotia Bird Society Sanctuary Trust has donated a 16 acre coastal property near Port Joli to the Nature Trust.
Nature Trust Executive Director Bonnie Sutherland says the Bird Society felt it made sense to hand the land over to an organization who can ensure the birds will be protected for a long time to come.
“People had given them land, but they really don’t have the resources and the expertise to look after land. So they decided that the Nature Trust would be the right partner to help them steward that land.”
Sutherland says the land offers a unique ecosystem for the birds.
“There’s estuary, whole diversity of habitats in here, salt marshes and eel grass beds and those wonderful mudflats that you’ll sometimes see thousands of birds feeding off there.”
That property is adjacent 200 acres the Nature trust currently owns and is home to several species of sand pipers, plovers and yellowlegs.
New refuge protected for globally declining shorebirds thanks to @NSBirdSociety near Port Joli in Queens County! Photo: Jason Dain https://t.co/8vGapTKxWG pic.twitter.com/oilG4lqpza
— NS Nature Trust (@NSNatureTrust) May 10, 2018
**Photo Contributed by Nova Scotia Nature Trust
Reported by Ed Halverson
Twitter: @edwardhalverson
E-Mail: halveroson.ed@radioabl.ca
