Download or read book Great Lakes Piping Plover written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recovery Plan for Piping Plovers Charadrius Melodus of the Great Lakes and Northern Great Plains written by Great Lakes/Northern Great Plains Piping Plover Recovery Team and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Lakes Piping Plover written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conservation of the Piping Plover Charadrius Melodus in the Great Lakes Region written by Lauren Christine Wemmer and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recovery Plan for the Great Lake Piping Plovers Charadrius Melodus written by Great Lakes/Northern Great Plains Piping Plover Recovery Team and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Love Lives of Birds written by Laura Erickson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ornithologist Laura Erickson combines her bird expertise with a touch of romance writing in this exploration of the courtship and mating rituals of 35 bird species, from the tiny ruby-throated hummingbird to the mighty great blue heron.
Download or read book Endangered and Threatened Species of the Platte River written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tension between wildlife protection under the Endangered Species Act and water management in the Platte River Basin has existed for more than 25 years. The Platte River provides important habitat for migratory and breeding birds, including three endangered or threatened species: the whooping crane, the northern Great Plains population of the piping plover, and the interior least tern. The leading factors attributed to the decline of the cranes are historical overhunting and widespread habitat destruction and, for the plovers and terns, human interference during nesting and the loss of riverine nesting sites in open sandy areas that have been replaced with woodlands, sand and gravel mines, housing, and roadways. Extensive damming has disrupted passage of the endangered pallid sturgeon and resulted in less suitable habitat conditions such as cooler stream flows, less turbid waters, and inconsistent flow regimes. Commercial harvesting, now illegal, also contributed to the decline of the sturgeon. Endangered and Threatened Species of the Platte River addresses the habitat requirements for these federally protected species. The book further examines the scientific aspects of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's instream-flow recommendations and habitat suitability guidelines and assesses the science concerning the connections among the physical systems of the river as they relate to species' habitats.
Download or read book Great Lakes Piping Plover Persistence Despite Projected Declines written by Erin Anne Roche and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shorebird Guide written by Michael O'Brien and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When many birders go out looking at shorebirds, they see a distant mud flat full of grayish brown birds in various shapes and sizes and have no idea where to begin the identification process. When advanced birders look at that same flock of shorebirds, they can identify the vast majority of birds with a quick binocular scan. Experts use the simplest, most easily observed characteristics--size, structure, behavior, and general color patterns--almost subconsciously, and can identify most birds even before looking carefully at plumage details. Now birders of all levels can learn how to identify these wildly popular birds quickly and with much less effort. This guide provides more than 870 stunning color photographs, sequenced to give a general impression of a species first and progressing to a more detailed image of the bird throughout its life cycle. Captions list characteristics in order of importance, reflecting the thought process that experts use to identify birds.
Download or read book The Living Great Lakes written by Jerry Dennis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides an account of his experiences as a crew member on a tall-masted schooner during a six-week voyage through the Great Lakes, and discusses his other explorations of the lakes, looking at their history, geology, and environmental disaster and rescue.
Download or read book Breeding Season Spatial Requirements of Great Lakes Piping Plovers Charadrius Melodus in Northern Lower Michigan written by Catherine Diane Haffner and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Population Demography of the Great Lakes Piping Plover written by Erin Anne Roche and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecology and Management of the Endangered Piping Plover at the Cat Island Restoration Project in Lower Green Bay Lake Michigan written by Demetrius Lafkas and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The endangered population of Great Lakes piping plover (Charadrius melodus) has nested at Cat Island Restoration Site in lower Green Bay, Wisconsin since 2016. Daily monitoring and research at Cat Island during the 2016-2021 breeding seasons have provided a detailed description of nesting and fledgling success of individually marked birds in a 5 ha (12.36 acres) gridded area. I acquired more detailed information about social behavior and species interactions of nesting piping plovers during the 2019 and 2020 nesting seasons. The goal of this analysis is to better understand the ecology and demography of the population and to provide a foundation for future management and monitoring decisions at Cat Island. The number of nesting piping plover pairs has increased from a single nest in 2016 to 6 nests in 2021. A total of 40 young birds have fledged during this 6 year period, with significant variation among years due to management-relevant issues including predation, avian botulism (2020), and demographic stochasticity resulting in a shortage of breeding males (2021). Adult piping plovers with unique band combinations have revealed a high degree of site philopatry and site specificity at the level of individual territories within the nesting area. Vegetation sampling during August 2020 showed that the native American searocket, (Cakile edentula); colonized Cat Island naturally and is associated with sand/cobble substrates characteristic of the main piping plover nesting area. Non-native invasive species like Phragmites australis (common reed) and Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) were negatively associated with the piping plover nest area. During the past 6 years vegetation has gradually encroached into the habitat used by piping plovers, although management efforts have been fairly successful in controlling the spread of unwanted vegetation into the core nesting area. Piping plovers at the Cat Island Restoration Site shared their nesting habitat with killdeer (Charadrius vociferous), spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularius), common tern (Sterna hirundo), and transient or migrant birds that used the site irregularly. Interactions with killdeer were generally antagonistic when piping plover chicks were present, whereas interactions with killdeer at other times and interactions with spotted sandpipers were more neutral. Presence of common terns benefitted nesting piping plovers because the terns provided an effective warning system for potential predators. At least 16 potential avian predators and 4 mammalian predators were observed in or near the piping plover nesting area. I provide a literature review of the impacts of these and other predators on piping plover populations, with recommendations for control or eradication in the core piping plover nest area. Brinno BCC100 time-lapse construction cameras in the plovers' nesting area at Cat Island provided hundreds of thousands of images showing seasonal vegetation change and presence of bird and mammal species during the 2019 and 2020 nesting seasons. Coupled with daily location information for individual piping plovers, this information helps document where the birds spent their time at the Cat Island Restoration Site and what types of substrate and microhabitat are most important for their survival.Based on observations at Cat Island and published literature I provide recommendations regarding vegetation and habitat management, predator control, avian botulism, and other factors that affect long term success of the Cat Island piping plover population. Like most endangered species populations, ongoing monitoring and habitat management will be needed to ensure long term survival of piping plovers at this site. The attractiveness of Cat Island to migrating piping plovers and the potential demographic success of this local population have been demonstrated during the 2016-2021 observation period. Even if overall nesting success is moderate or low, the relatively long life and site specificity of individual birds suggests that this local population may contribute valuable genetic diversity, culturally evolved behavioral traits, and perhaps even improved demographic stability of the overall Great Lakes piping plover metapopulation.
Download or read book Revised Plan for Piping Plovers Charadrius Melodus Breeding on the Great Lakes and Northern Great Plains written by Great Lakes/Northern Great Plains Piping Plover Recovery Team and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analysis of Vegetation Management for Great Lakes Piping Plover Charadrius Melodus written by Benjamin J. VanDyke and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of North American Birds written by Kenn Kaufman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling natural history of birds, lavishly illustrated with 600 colorphotos, is now available for the first time in flexi binding.
Download or read book The Birds of Pennsylvania written by Gerald M. McWilliams and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With clear descriptions of physiographic regions as well as 44 breeding distribution maps for the most commonly seen birds and 67 photographs of many rare and hard-to-find species, this volume is a resource for all who wish to deepen their appreciation of Pennsylvania's birdlife."--Jacket.
