Deveaux Bank South Carolina Whimbrel Announcement

Discovery at Deveaux! This short film follows a team of shorebird biologists as they confirm the first census of a newly discovered Whimbrel roost in 2019. The final counts amount to nearly 20,000 individuals, representing half of the entire Atlantic Flyway population of this declining species using a single barrier island in South Carolina.
Spanish translation provided by Alix Pedraza.
Learn more here: www.birds.corn...
Support to protect the Atlantic flyway has been provided by the Robert F. Schumann Foundation
#DiscoveryAtDeveaux #BringBirdsBack

[@CharlesClemens]

I have fished near these banks just as the sun was coming up to raucous music that is thousands of shore birds waking up and getting ready for a days foraging. Its magical and mesmerizing. Here is what it is like for me. The water is glassy and flat. The sky is a myriad of warm colors swirling and building up an azure sky. A chorus of terns and other shore birds, hidden in the tall reeds, are building to a furious crescendo right behind me. Seems like even the birds are sour about waking up so early in the morning. And then some signal strikes and they all take off in waves. Group after group pile out of the grass in masses so numerous they could nearly blot out the rising sun. I have stood there with my mouth agape staring at the wonder while my cast net drips pluff mud down my front side and finger size bait shrimp pop and flick at my feet. But then almost as quickly as it happened there is silence. And that silence is deafening. The lap of the water on my boat hull could wake the dead. Gathering my net for another throw echoes in my ears as all is still and quiet.

[@hr6334]

South Carolina has some of the most stunning natural places in the world, hands down. Great video!! 🥰

[@plovergrrl]

An awesome video and beautiful love letter to an amazing place and an amazing species.

[@claytonkoonce4765]

I just read the article about the whimbrels on Deveaux Bank in the Autumn 2021 issue of Cornell Lab's Living Bird magazine. I wanted to find out more and found this video. Thanks!

[@donnawatkins1748]

Hello Felicia from Donna and Gene Watkins. Great work, great film and a great feeling to know some declining species seem to be hanging in there. So happy for you and this "discovery." Very uplifting.

[@Tui1x]

Great Video

[@deepashtray5605]

Half as many as 20 years ago.... 30 years ago I had the great privilege of doing a summer internship with Stephen Kress in the Gulf of Maine. It is disheartening to say the least learning about the many shorebird populations that have plummeted since. Beautiful video.

[@JanisKPC]

Fascinating❣️ Thank you 🙏🏼

[@g-a-i-l-]

I LOVE this video. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will tell all. I'm just curious how you can count birds moving that fast.

[@manterkukurterengganu2947]

Beautifull... 😍😍👍✌

[@scottwilbor9042]

Such a wonderful story told, gives us all so much hope to discovery still out there and for the people who still care about these places and their wildlife, like these world-traveling whimbrels! Thank you biologists and supporters.

[@thomastuorto9929]

It has to be. We are lucky there are people who dedicate their lives to trying to protect the natural of the world we live in!

[@OchoVerde]

This is right in my back yard and these birds have been doing this for thousands of years. Awesome!

[@lfjgill6042]

Really fine film--great visuals, nicely put together. Thank you!

[@kiah9318]

Excellent video. I am glad to hear that the population is growing through good conservation actions.

[@kieronmcdonnell3258]

Great video, whimbral are always great to see passing through England during migration.

[@Perly53]

Just a huge "wow." To all the Whimbrel: keep on keepin' on.

[@tombailey6191]

Terrific find, but really makes me worry that such a concentration of the population in one place will be vulnerable to some catastrophic event.

[@SueLannin-cm2hr]

Yes, this is a major point of the video. When critical habitat sites like this area in South Carolina are lost to development or pollution, endangered species are at even greater risk for extinction.

[@birdocs]

It is beautiful to see such high numbers of birds together.

[@tav0303]

Fabulous, yes there is hope!

[@travisbicklejr]

Great little documentary!

[@thomastuorto9929]

Great vid. At 6:32! She isn't allowed to borrow my binoculars!

[@donprosch3603]

DeVeaux was the name of my high school in Niagara Falls, NY. Any idea why this place was named DeVeaux.

[@debjanichanda1193]

So beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

[@JesseHBrewer]

It's a sandbar. They'll have to find a new place to stop overnight in a decade or two; that's baked in by now. WE did this to the world, and we show no signs of stopping now.

[@Singularity2Singularity]

Who are the 7 people who down-voted this video? What was wrong with it? LOL

[@leeswanson9732]

Great video. Thanks

[@mituldesai666]

Whimbrels .Lucky that still the great numbers exist, good work of the birders whith details...Liked. 👍

[@andreabank8786]

Awesome story!! Gotta go see those Whimbrels!!!

[@publictoilet7832]

but i see them here in Philippines january 2022

[@sauraphaganaxrex9612]

love this video! amazing the number of whimbrels that were counted

[@sidandrews5955]

Remarkable! I am gob-smacked but so happy to hear and see this news! Whimbrel was one of the first "unusual" birds I saw on fall migration when I was all of 12 in1967 in Prince Edward Point, Ontario. This news makes me feel good!

[@natureexplorersanguilla6893]

Stunning!

[@d.k.f9782]

🤗👏👏👏

[@gregmackinnon8098]

The best🎉

[@katherineharman2845]

Wow, what a story

[@KhalidMehmood-yt1yw]

Very beautiful all birds and also very beautiful all scenes and also beautiful photography so thanks

[@johnhartley3596]

Astounding

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

Excellent video of these whimbrels in the middle of migration. I want to visit this island and see this huge number of birds as well as the other birds as well. Those terms looked like least terns if I am not mistaken.

[@chinobambino5252]

There is a small colony of least terns there, but it's mostly royal terns!

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

@@chinobambino5252 Cool. Thanks for the correction.

[@user-bu9nb8wr6e]

What a fantastic film, lovely people and so well filmed. Then we get to the stars of the film the fantastic Whimbrel and the land and sea, well nature in all its glory I should say. I live in the UK we have Whimbrel that use certain places as regular stop over places to feed and rest up. Not sure we get those sorts of numbers though but I'm just a keen birdwatcher not an expert. Thanks for the film it was great.

[@PaintedTurtle001]

Impressive! 👍🕊

[@asifhusainarastu7193]

Amazing !!!! Beautiful sight ❤️

[@myterracegarden1067]

Omg so beautiful 👌👌👏👏👏

[@courtneylovegowans2833]

Thank you for sharing this story of hope!

[@wolfdenranjeet]

fantastic

[@kristinryling1879]

Hallelujah! Beautiful! ♥️🕊♥️

[@satyasuryagardening9810]

Beautiful

[@sully-alacumba]

Amazing!