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The Yale Peabody Museum teams up with Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo and The Connecticut Audubon Society
in Bridgeport for our third annual BioBlitz — a 24-hour race to
identify as many living organisms as possible in a specific area, in
this case the town of Stratford. See the results of our previous Stratford BioBlitz events:
May 2007 | May 2008 | Feb 2009 | Aug 2009
There are several Bioblitz events each year throughout Connecticut.
Many are conducted by municipal land trust organizations or
conservation groups interested in learning which species occur on
properties in their care. The University of Connecticut bioblitz takes
place in a different town every other year.
One of the
main goals of a Bioblitz is to collect data from a single town in
multiple seasons to see how the species diversity of a place changes
annually.
Habitats available for the Stratford survey include 2 beaches, a salt
marsh, a cranberry bog, rivers, streams, ponds and a mixed hardwood
forest.
For information contact:
Gregory Watkins-Colwell
Division of Vertebrate Zoology
203.432.3791
gregory.watkins-colwell@yale.edu
Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo
http://www.beardsleyzoo.org/
Center for Conservation and Biodiversity
& Connecticut State Museum of Natural History
University of Connecticut
http://web.uconn.edu/mnh/bioblitz/
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/blitz.html
with links to other BioBlitz sites
Town of Stratford
http://www.townofstratford.com
From the East: Take I-95 South to Exit 32. Turn left onto
Linden Avenue. Make another left onto West Broad Street. You will go
through a roundabout. Turn right onto Route 113/Main Street, follow for
2.1 miles. Turn left onto Short Beach Road. Stay straight to go onto
Dorne Drive. Follow Dorne Drive and it will put you into Short Beach
Park.
From the West: Take I-95 North to Exit 30. Take the ramp to
Sikorsky Memorial Airport. Take a slight right onto Lordship
Boulevard/Route 113. Stay straight to go onto Access Road. Make a right
onto Main Street. Take a left onto Short Beach Road. Stay straight to
go onto Dorne Drive. Follow Dorne Drive and it will put you into Short
Beach Park.
From CT-15/Merritt Parkway take Exit 53 onto CT-110, turn south onto CT-110/Main St. (away from Sikorsky Aircraft). Stay on road for less than 0.2 miles. Turn slight right onto Main St. (also Main St. Putney); turn is shortly after the underpass for CT-15 and almost immediately at the bottom of ramp from the northbound side of CT-15. Turn right onto Chapel St. Turn slight right onto James Farm Rd. (intersection has a stop sign and is near a school); stay on James Farm Road and cross back over CT-15. Turn slight left onto Peters Lane after 0.4 miles. Follow Peters Lane for approximately 0.6 miles into the parking lot of Roosevelt Forest.
