Surveys monitor beaches for dead birds - The Olympian

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Volunteers with the group conduct regular surveys of beaches in their areas. They identify and take measurements on any dead birds found and report them to the organization.

From its start in 2000, when 12 volunteers first conducted surveys on five Washington beaches, the program has grown to almost 500 volunteers monitoring almost 300 beaches in Northern California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. Organization officials say COASST is the largest beached bird network in the world today.

The Pierce County beaches on the list are Browns Point Lighthouse Park, Chambers Bay, Kopachuck State Park, Middle Waterway, Owen Beach, Pitt Passage, Purdy Spit, Squally Beach, Sunnyside Beach and Titlow Beach.

Currently, there are four Thurston County beaches are on the COASST survey list: Evergreen, Priest Point and two at Tolmie State Park.

Four Mason County beaches are on the list: Menard's Landing, Rendsland Creek, Twanoh State Park and Walker County Park.

This week's activities begin with a brown-bag presentation by the group's founder, Julia Parrish, now an associate dean in the College of the Environment at the University of Washington. Parrish will talk about the organization's finds and trends that volunteers are seeing. She will talk on Wednesday from noon-1 p.m. in Room 172 of the Natural Resources Building, 1111 Washington St. S.E., Olympia.

16 Oct, 2011

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