'Skin and bones': Osprey chicks struggle to survive along Jersey Shore
- Posted on September 15, 2026
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'Skin and bones': Osprey chicks struggle to survive along Jersey Shore
Researchers monitoring osprey nests around Great Bay and the Mullica River found many chicks were starving, with 85% not surviving as experts focus on the continuing scarcity of a critical food source. Stockton University biology instructor Melanie Schroer and her students surveyed and monitored more than two dozen osprey nests in the area. “We would approach a nest, and we would see chicks, just skin and bones,” Schroer said. The troubling...
