Kim Abplanalp

A long time birder, Kim’s interest peaked while being a field assistant in the study of horseshoe crab behavior for nine years, spending many hours a day along the coast of the Delaware Bay witnessing the migration of Red Knots and other shorebirds. Currently she is a field assistant on the Common Tern Raft Project, a collaboration between DNR, Audubon and Maryland Coastal Bays, that has created an artificial island raft in the inland bays to create breeding habitat for Common Terns. Devoted to bird conservation, this project and others she’s working on are dear to her heart.