About This BlogDuring the western snowy plover breeding season, park docents help monitor and protect nesting sites and help create awareness and educate visitors about this threatened species and its life cycle. Visitors have expressed interest in the plovers and are pleased to have staff and docents in the field answering all types of naturalist questions. Through the summer, park staff create updates to let staff, volunteers, and visitors know the latest on what is happening out at the nesting sites. Click on one of the links below to find out how the Snowy Plovers at Point Reyes were doing at the time. To learn more about becoming a Snowy Plover Docent, please visit our Volunteer page. Snowy Plover Update - August 28, 2021
August 28, 2021
The last western snowy plover nests have hatched in the past couple weeks and we are now focused on monitoring broods until they fledge in early to mid-September. We are currently at 17 fledged chicks for the 2021 season, and we could potentially reach 21 if the five remaining chicks survive to fledge! For comparison, we observed 11 fledged chicks during the 2020 breeding season. Snowy Plover Update - August 20, 2021
August 20, 2021
Snowy plover productivity is looking fantastic this past month and a half. We found two broods near the Abbotts Lagoon area in the past few weeks that had hatched from unknown nests (i.e., we didn’t know these nests existed!). One of these broods already fledged three chicks and the other brood will likely fledge three more today! All six of these chicks will, unfortunately, be unbanded; we found them at a stage where they were highly mobile and nearly impossible to capture. |
Last updated: July 18, 2022