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 - September 8, 2025
September 08, 2025
Our breeding snowy plovers have wrapped up for the season! Last Tuesday, our team made it out to Limantour Beach, and we were able to locate two freshly fledged, banded chicks as well as our surprise chick noted in the last update, bringing our total of wild fledged birds to 26. Including our International Bird Rescue fledges, Point Reyes National Seashore brought 29 new snowy plovers into the world this season, which is our second highest ever. Snowy Plover Update - August 28, 2025
August 28, 2025
While the snowy plover breeding season officially runs from March 1 to September 15, our breeding activity should be wrapped up in the seashore early next week with our last chicks fledging around Labor Day. Today, we found a lone, three-week-old chick with an unbanded male at Limantour Beach, giving us one more late nest for the season. Out at Limantour, we have our last two broods of chicks aiming to make it through the weekend and fledging on Monday. Snowy Plover Update - August 21, 2025
August 21, 2025
On Sunday, biologists from Point Blue Conservation Science picked up our third and final captive-reared bird from International Bird Rescue and released it at North Beach, along with two other juveniles originating from the Montezuma Wetlands in the delta. During surveys this week, our team confirmed two more chicks to have fledged, bringing our season total up to 14 fledglings. We also located at least ten chicks foraging out and about on our beaches. |
Last updated: May 30, 2025