Western Snowy Plover - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The western snowy plover is a small shorebird with moderately long legs and a short neck. Their back is pale tan while their underparts are white, and have dark patches on the sides of their neck which reach around onto the top of their chest.
Western Snowy Plover - U.S. National Park Service
Western snowy plovers have a unique way to catch a meal of kelp or wrack flies. Encountering a mass of the flies on the beach, a plover runs through the cloud of insects with its mouth open, snapping at them to catch them in mid-air. Adults forage on …
Snowy plover - Wikipedia
The snowy plover (Anarhynchus nivosus) is a small shorebird found in the Americas. It is a member of the bird family Charadriidae, which includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings. The snowy plover was originally described by John Cassin in 1858, but was classified as a subspecies of the Kentish plover in 1922. Since 2011, the snowy plover ...
Western snowy plover - Wikipedia
Western snowy plovers are migratory birds but are also year-round residents in the southern locations. Their breeding and nesting range includes the western coast of the United States; Washington and Northern Utah to southern California, wintering in Baja California, Mexico.
About the Western Snowy Plover - Audubon California
The Western Snowy Plover is a threatened small shorebird, approximately the size of a sparrow. During the breeding season, March through September, plovers can be seen nesting along the shores, peninsulas, offshore islands, bays, estuaries, and rivers of the United States' Pacific Coast from Oregon to California.
Western Snowy Plovers in California | Audubon California
Audubon California and local Audubon chapters are devoted to the protection and recovery of the Western Snowy Plover, a small, rare, and threatened shorebird that makes its home on certain beaches on the Pacific coast.
Western Snowy Plover - U.S. National Park Service
2015年2月28日 · Western snowy plovers are small, white and tan shorebirds found primarily on beaches along the Pacific coast from Oregon south to Baja. Snowy plovers are infamous for their extraordinary camouflage and ability to hide from predators, and eager birders!
Western Snowy Plover - A resource site devoted to the recovery …
This website is devoted to protection and recovery of the Western Snowy Plover (Charadrius nivosus nivosus), a small, rare, threatened shorebird that makes its home on certain beaches on the Pacific Coast.
Western Snowy Plover Monitoring - U.S. National Park Service
2018年8月7日 · Western snowy plovers are small shorebirds that live and breed on the sandy beaches and dunes of the Pacific coast. Listed as a federally threatened species since 1993, their numbers are in decline because of habitat loss and degradation.
Western Snowy Plover - Los Padres ForestWatch
The western snowy plover is a small (about the size of a sparrow) shorebird with moderately long dark legs, a short neck, pale-tan backs and a white underbelly. Their diet includes small invertebrates such as crustaceans and insects such as beach hoppers and marine worms.