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Dog exclusion zones needed to help declining migratory shorebirds on Dr May's Island

Curlew sandpipers are one of the main shorebird species that migrate to Elliott Heads every year.  (Supplied: Chris Barnes)

A group of more than two dozen residents in a Queensland coastal town have voiced environmental and safety concerns over dog owners who let their pets roam unleashed at a site of national value to migratory shorebirds.

Kay Edney has led calls for exclusion zones to prevent dogs from disturbing the birds along the foreshore of Elliott Heads, 360 kilometres north of Brisbane.

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