Funding from National Fish and Wildlife Foundation allowed Audubon to partner with Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge, the Manomet Center for Conservation Science, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Coastal Program on a Beach-nesting Bird Stewardship Program. Two seasonal interns were hired to assist with USFWS and Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection’s stewardship activities for Piping Plovers and initiate monitoring and stewardship activities for American Oystercatchers in Connecticut and Rhode Island. As part of this project 134 individual American Oystercatchers in 46 nesting pairs were documented in Connecticut. These fledged 24 chicks. In April, we assisted the Connecticut DEEP in putting up over 2 miles of string fencing and 800 yards of metal fencing to protect nesting Piping Plovers and Least Terns at Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford, Sandy Point in West Haven and Long Beach and Pleasure Beach in Stratford and Bridgeport.