In March, the Greater Princeton Branch of AYLUS (GPA) resumed its bluebird box monitoring project, along with Plainsboro Preserve and Mercer County Park.
Eastern Bluebirds were once a common bird in New Jersey. With habitat loss and competition from introduction of aggressive, non-native birds, the populations of these beautiful birds declined. Through the efforts of caring people, esp volunteers who aid the nesting of bluebirds and other native bird species by monitoring boxes for nesting attempts by non-native birds, Bluebirds are nesting successfully at Mercer County Park.
Plainsboro Preserve (80 Scotts Corner Road, Cranbury, NJ 08512) and Mercer County Park Commission (five parks, with a focus on the Mercer Disc Golf) have their bluebird nest monitoring projects continuing in 2023.
With the help of GPA volunteers, both organizations will get a better understanding of the bluebird species and populations here around central New Jersey. It will be a weekly monitoring where a group of volunteers will go out to different locations in the preserve and record data by checking the bird nests.
This will take place during the daytime hours, through (depending on the weather) April to August.
GPA volunteers (3/25, 2 hrs): Amber Yu, Eric Li, Dylan Li, Ethan Jiang, James Jiang, Isaac Chen, Larry Hu, Zhihan Zhang, Ziqi Zhang, Dessie Yang, Andrew Yu, Kathy Yang, Emily Tang, Claire Tang, Michael Tung, and more.
