- Date
- 2013-09-03
- Kind
- Monitoring
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- birdswildlifeconservationpublic-service
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In September 2013, a local organizer recruited volunteers to monitor Beaver Island beaches for dead birds and distributed forms and kits for the Beach Rangers program.
Evidence limits
The notice documents preparedness and volunteer monitoring, not a confirmed 2013 outbreak, diagnostic result, or island-wide bird count.
Sources
See the sources block above.
Sources
- The organizer again requested beach walkers to count dead birds and said monitoring kits were available. This reinforces continuing preparedness but does not establish a 2013 outbreak or count.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 06 · t006805
- A local organizer recruited fall Beach Rangers and distributed monitoring forms and kits in anticipation of another possible die-off. This documents a continuing community-monitoring practice, not a confirmed 2013 outbreak or count.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 06 · t006730
Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island recruits Beach Rangers for avian-botulism monitoring, 2013”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-avian-botulism-beach-rangers-2013/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Beach Rangers/walkers needed,” September 27, 2013. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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