The Delaware Bayshore Birding and Wildlife Trails Guide is now available! The guide is available by calling NJ Travel and Tourism at 1-800-VISITNJ, or by visiting your local New Jersey Audubon Society Nature Center.  Click Here to find the location near you.

About the Delaware Bayshore region:

• 1093.4 square miles
• bordered by Delaware River and Bay and the Atlantic Ocean
• just over the bridge from Philadelphia
• offers resting and feeding grounds for more than a million migrating birds each spring
• the shorebird population that assembles on Delaware Bay for a few weeks each May and June is the second largest in the Western Hemisphere
• many rare and endangered species, including sensitive joint vetch, sturgeon and scarlet snake, depend on the region’s waters, wetlands and uplands
• Salem County’s natural features include more than 34,000 acres of unique meadow and marshland, tidal and freshwater wetlands, expansive woodlands, lakes and ponds
• Cumberland County is known as the “Garden Spot” in the Garden State and contains nearly 70,000 acres of farmland
• Cape May County has 30 miles of sandy beaches on the barrier islands with thousands of acres on the mainland preserved for open space, farmlands and natural conservation.