The Anne Arundel Bird Club has a special presentation t his Friday, May 4, at 8:00 p.m. at Arlington Echo, 975 Indian Landing Road, Millersville, by Stacy Epperson and Gerald Winegrad on HORSESHOE CRABS AND SHOREBIRDS: THE INEXTRICABLE CONNECTION AND CONSERVATION CONCERNS. Stacy will have live horseshoe crabs and will speak about their biology and her education program at DNR using the crabs. Gerald will address the conservation status of horseshoe crabs and Red Knots and efforts to restrict the harvest of the crabs and list the Red Knot under the federal Endangered Species Act.
FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012. HORSESHOE CRABS AND SHOREBIRDS: THE INEXTRICABLE CONNECTION AND CONSERVATION CONCERNS. Gerald Winegrad and Stacy Epperson will discuss horseshoe crabs and shorebirds. Come and learn about the amazing adaptations the horseshoe crab has developed to survive for 445 million years and the conservation efforts for this species. Stacy runs the Raising Horseshoe Crabs in the Classroom Program with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and will focus on the biology and rearing of the crabs, spawning research, and describe her DNR educational programs using the crabs. She will have some live juveniles for examination . Stacy’s successful 13 year program invites schools to learn about horseshoe crabs in the best way possible, by raising horseshoe crabs from eggs. Stacy is the Maryland representative for Green Eggs and Sand, a tri-state initiative composed of Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey natural resources agencies. Based on the horseshoe crab, this award winning science curriculum (2005 National Association for Interpretation First Place Curriculum) was developed for middle and high school students by master teachers and is combined with an intense three day teacher workshop immersion in all things related to horseshoe crabs. Stacy has a BS from Towson University in Sport Management. Gerald will speak on the annual spawning ritual of horseshoe crabs on the shores of Delaware Bay that attracts the second largest concentration of shorebirds in North America and on efforts to conserve both. He will discuss the link of hundreds of thousands of shorebirds migrating north to their Arctic breeding grounds to horseshoe crab eggs. Red Knots, Dunlin, Ruddy Turnstone, and Semi-palmated Sandpiper are dependent on the crab eggs along with other species of shorebirds. Gerald will cover the status of Red Knot populations. From the early 1990's, Gerald Winegrad led efforts to conserve and protect horseshoe crabs from overharvest for conch and eel bait. At American Bird Conservancy and previously in the Maryland Legislature, Gerald enlisted partners and successfully gained restrictions on the harvest of crabs, reducing landings by 78%. In 2010, the highest harvest occurred in Maryland--161,545 crabs or 27% of the total coastal take. Gerald Winegrad is an AABC Board member, an attorney and a long time conservationist having served in the Maryland Legislature for 16 years and as Vice President for Policy at ABC. He currently is a professor at the University of Maryland Graduate program at the School of Public Policy. Gerald leads the annual Delaware Bay trip scheduled to leave the Bay 50 Shopping Center at 7:30 a.m., Sunday, May 20. FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012. HORSESHOE CRABS AND SHOREBIRDS: THE INEXTRICABLE CONNECTION AND CONSERVATION CONCERNS. Gerald Winegrad and Stacy Epperson will discuss horseshoe crabs and shorebirds. Come and learn about the amazing adaptations the horseshoe crab has developed to survive for 445 million years and the conservation efforts for this species. Stacy runs the Raising Horseshoe Crabs in the Classroom Program with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and will focus on the biology and rearing of the crabs, spawning research, and describe her DNR educational programs using the crabs. She will have some live juveniles for examination . Stacy’s successful 13 year program invites schools to learn about horseshoe crabs in the best way possible, by raising horseshoe crabs from eggs. Stacy is the Maryland representative for Green Eggs and Sand, a tri-state initiative composed of Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey natural resources agencies. Based on the horseshoe crab, this award winning science curriculum (2005 National Association for Interpretation First Place Curriculum) was developed for middle and high school students by master teachers and is combined with an intense three day teacher workshop immersion in all things related to horseshoe crabs. Stacy has a BS from Towson University in Sport Management. Gerald will speak on the annual spawning ritual of horseshoe crabs on the shores of Delaware Bay that attracts the second largest concentration of shorebirds in North America and on efforts to conserve both. He will discuss the link of hundreds of thousands of shorebirds migrating north to their Arctic breeding grounds to horseshoe crab eggs. Red Knots, Dunlin, Ruddy Turnstone, and Semi-palmated Sandpiper are dependent on the crab eggs along with other species of shorebirds. Gerald will cover the status of Red Knot populations. From the early 1990's, Gerald Winegrad led efforts to conserve and protect horseshoe crabs from overharvest for conch and eel bait. At American Bird Conservancy and previously in the Maryland Legislature, Gerald enlisted partners and successfully gained restrictions on the harvest of crabs, reducing landings by 78%. In 2010, the highest harvest occurred in Maryland--161,545 crabs or 27% of the total coastal take. Gerald Winegrad is an AABC Board member, an attorney and a long time conservationist having served in the Maryland Legislature for 16 years and as Vice President for Policy at ABC. He currently is a professor at the University of Maryland Graduate program at the School of Public Policy. Gerald leads the annual Delaware Bay trip scheduled to leave the Bay 50 Shopping Center at 7:30 a.m., Sunday, May 20.
Posted by Sue Ricciardi, Arnold, MD for Gerald Winegrad, AABC Program Chair
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