Dear Ospreyers,

Here is a link to an excellent article about the Red Knot and horseshoe crab issue. The article does a particularly good job of explaining the importance of very high densities of crab eggs to the knots, and how densities plummeted in the 1990's and still have not recovered.

 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0418_060418_crab.html


Dave


David Curson, PhD
Director of Bird Conservation,
Audubon MD-DC,
2437 Eastern Avenue,
Baltimore  MD  21224
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