The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) plans to offer training to volunteers who want to help protect the First State’s endangered and threatened beach-nesting birds. 

The Assateague Island National Seashore and National Park Service has announced this year’s annual closure of areas on the north end of Assateague to protect nesting birds.

Some areas of Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge’s Fowler Beach will be closing for the benefit of migratory shorebirds, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) says.

For the first time since 2016, a piping plover nest was found at Gordons Pond in Cape Henlopen State Park, which has prompted a temporary closure of some of the beach.