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Sandy Damage Threatens Horseshoe Crabs and Migratory Shorebirds
WNYC News – The storm dispersed what 
need most to lay eggs – sand. “Sandy was so violent that it pushed sand well in, or out to sea,” said independent biologist Larry Niles, working with the American Littoral Society. Without abundant levels of horseshoe crab eggs, migratory birds that eat the eggs during spring stopovers to Arctic breeding grounds will suffer. Especially the threatened Red Knot. continued
