Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge, DE

Each spring and early summer, a massive migration of red knots, ruddy turnstones, and sandpipers descends on the beaches of Delaware Bay and Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge to feast on the eggs of the world’s largest population of horseshoe crabs. With financial support from the Allerton Foundation, the Fund purchased nine acres here, securing three miles of coastline as an addition to the refuge. The newly protected dunes will provide a welcome retreat for the shorebirds during their marathon flight from Argentina to the Arctic Circle.