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The first aviary focuses on shorebirds — plovers, sandpipers, sanderlings — that come to the Delaware Bay around Cape May, N.J., to munch on horseshoe crab eggs.

A fourth bird, a sanderling, came in Monday.

Shorebirds such as sanderlings and plovers are down by about one-third, the team says.

Dr. Heather Barron’s patients range in size from sanderlings, tiny birds that can weigh as little as three and a half ounces, to loggerhead turtles that weigh hundreds of pounds.

We take long walks on the beach, where she watches those namesake shore-birds, the sanderlings, leaving no stone unturned.