Each year over 1 million shorebirds of six species stopover on the Delaware Bay

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The Delaware Bay ranks as one of the world’s top three stopovers. Up until the early 1990’s over one million birds used the beaches and marshes of the Delaware Bay, all looking to rebuild weight to move on to Arctic breeding grounds. In recent years that number of birds has declined dramatically numbering less than 500,000.