Events

Upcoming Events

2025 Season Volunteer Information Session - Webinar

April 14, 2025

7:00 - 8:00pm

REGISTER HERE

2025 New Volunteer In-Person Training*

Sunday, May 4th

9:30am - 2:30pm

Registration link to come!

*Training is mandatory for all new volunteers

2024 NYC Plover Project Urban Wildlife Webinar Series - replays

December 17th, 7pm ET

Tamsyn Hogarth: Melbourne Australia's Flying Foxes

REPLAY | password: 6U5%$?Tr

December 3rd, 7pm ET

Sara Tytlar: Navigating the Sea Turtle Nesting Season in Miami Dade County

REPLAY | password: D9!eRKF+

November 26th, 7pm ET

Rich Downs: White Terns of Hawaii - An Urban Seabbird

REPLAY | password: ?0uIm2^=

November 19th, 7pm ET

Beth Pratt: P-22 and the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing

REPLAY - forthcoming

Past Events

Nature Journaling Workshop

Sunday, March 30

Winter Beach Bird Walk II

Sunday, March 9

Winter Beach Bird Walk

Saturday, December 7

Fort Tilden Beach Clean Up

Sunday, November 17th

Summer Bird Walk with NYC Plover Project & RISE

Saturday, July 6th

Rockaway's Black Birders Week Celebration

Hosted by The Garden by the Bay + NYC Plover Project

June 1, 2024

10am - 3:00pm

We are thrilled to host Rockaway’s first-ever Black Birders Week Celebration on Saturday, June 1st, 2024 in Edgemere! Join us as we uplift and celebrate the Black Birders experience through a day in nature. We’ll start with a Bird Walk through the Arverne East Nature Preserve and then gather at The Garden By The Bay for nature-oriented activities, discussions, giveaways and lunch. This event is free to the public and all are welcome to join.

Additional Webinar Replays

A Conversation with Anne Hecht, endangered species biologist, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

December 7, 2023 at 7pm ET

REPLAY here. Password: 0$9m^oGC

Plovers on the Prairies: A Conversation with Dr. Mark Vrtiska and Elsa Forsberg, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

November 30, 2023

REPLAY here. Password: ZBiL=e.7

Mass Audubon & Maine Audubon: Enduring Commitment to Coastal Birds and Conservation Success

November 14, 2023

REPLAY here. Password: 5=40%$hC

Endangered Species Act at 50: Panel Discussion with Endangered Species Coalition, American Bird Conservancy, Friends of Blackwater, Save Our Wild Salmon, and Wolf Hollow

You can access the replay HERE

REPLAY: 1/19: Monty, Rose & How a City Came Together to Protect an Endangered Species - What NYC Can Learn From Chicago About Wildlife Protection [passcode: 7Cb#0D4@]

REPLAY: 12/20 - Christina Davis - NJ DEP Fish & Wildlife and

Todd Pover - Conserve Wildlife NJ [passcode: D^42X&6a]

"Piping Plovers of the Garden State”

REPLAY: 12/6 - Chris Allieri - NYC Plover Project [passcode: HBc=*!9J]

"Threats facing Piping Plovers in NYC & what you can do to help"

REPLAY: 11/29 - Dr. Alison Kocek - SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry [passcode: =2w+wJBx]

"New York's Great Lakes Piping Plovers - stories of captive-reared birds and recovery from upstate"

REPLAY: 11/22 - Dr. Grainne Maguire - BirdLife Australia [passcode: 2ax$.rTP]

"Recovering the threatened, ocean-beach dependent Hooded Plover: where are we 16 years in?"

Additional Past Events