Notes on hiking the Oregon Coast from Bandon to Port Orford, including an interview
with Snowy Plover biologist Dave Lauten.
Not exact matches
Even
with robust Western
snowy plover numbers this year, these birds still have a ways to go before they bounce back from their imperiled status.
The
snowy plover frequently raises two broods a year, and sometimes three in places where the breeding season is long.The female deserts her mate and brood about the time the chicks hatch and initiates a new breeding attempt
with a different male.
The nesting season of the threatened western
snowy plover runs from March through September and coincides
with the period of greatest human beach use, Memorial Day through Labor Day.
On a beach where only a few years ago almost no beachgoers could identify a
Snowy Plover, now beachgoers understand them and how to share the beach
with these little shorebirds.