We are most grateful to all the numerous volunteers that have participated in this project over the years. During the summers of 1997 and 1998 volunteers helped to capture an osprey with the NJ Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife - Endangered and Nongame Species Program. The University of Minnesota's Raptor Research Center then equipped the osprey with a satellite transmitter that tracked the bird to its wintering ground in South America. Students can go to the internet and see the locations of Southern New Jersey ospreys during migration. We often suggest the less cumbersome construction and erection of bluebird houses as a beneficial project for younger students.
School yards are often suitable habitat for bluebirds, with open fields and old woodlots.
It can be rewarding, fun and lead to a lifelong appreciation of nature.