Ornamented in buff and pale feathers, the western snowy plover often goes unnoticed amongst the sand dunes it inhabits. Heedless of this shy, pocket-sized shorebird, developers have made the open ...

DESCRIPTION: The western snowy plover is a very small bird, weighing less than two ounces and growing to be about six inches long. It is pale brown on top and white below, with a white hind neck ...

Ravens are a conservation concern for the protected western snowy plover (plover; Charadrius nivosus nivosus), causing low nest and chick survival in some breeding areas along the Pacific coast of ...

The driver destroyed a western snowy plover nest at the Grayland Beach State Park in Pacific County, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a June 13 Facebook post. One egg was ...

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At the heart of the crisis is the western snowy plover, a small, sand-colored bird that relies on its color to conceal it from predators. It will often sit in footprints and tire tracks ...

Western snowy plovers are one of the most threatened shorebirds in North America and have been protected under the Endangered Species Act since 1993. The birds breed along California’s coast, ...

In 2016, four western snowy plovers were found dead in tire tracks between October and November, according to an annual report on Oceano Dunes prepared by State Parks cited in the complaint. The ...