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Park Balances Public access With Protection Of Nesting Birds

(From jacksonville.com) Jacksonville”s Huguenot Park, Florida – Next to the families on vacation and weekend visitors perfecting their tans, managers at Jacksonville”s Huguenot Park made space on the beach this summer for another crowd: birds. 

About 400 feet of oceanfront is closed to people so thousands of terns and gulls nesting in the park’s dunes can have a safe shoreline, where chicks wait to be fed by parents returning from the sea.

“It was incredible to go out there and see that many birds. … They’re spilling out all over the beach,” said Johnson, who works as a biologist.

They were hatching, the parents were bringing them out of the dunes onto the beach. … You can watch parents flying back with fish.” “You have to have a balance,” he said.

You have to protect the wildlife.”

(By Steve Patterson)

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