Plover Breeding Window Survey

From U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service:

Whether you say plover with a long "o" (rhymes with "over") or plover with a short "o" (rhymes with "lover"), you will certainly agree that success is the right word to use when describing the results of this year's breeding window survey in Oregon. 

A record 243 Western snowy plovers were observed during a 2014 survey, including a recovered pair found nesting in a site that had not seen plovers in more than ten years! Read the story from the USFWS_Pacific Region: http://bit.ly/1oHdJ7m

Photo shows chicks banded for surveying purposes. Rest assured: the bands are feather-weight and do not harm the birds or impede their growth. Oregon is not the only state where snowy plovers flourish. The San Diego National Wildlife Refuge Complex in California is also just one of many refuges with plovers:http://1.usa.gov/1uQ3uU0.

Photo: Western snowy plovers (K. Castelein/Oregon Biodiversity and Information Center)