Natural History Wanderings

Audubon  reported

Since then, a broad coalition of conservation partners—biologists and zookeepers, tribes and government agencies, nonprofits and universities—has brought about a striking rebound. “When you add it up, it’s hundreds of people working really hard to try to save this one little bird,” says Vince Cavalieri, a National Park Service biologist who oversees plovers at Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, the population’s core stronghold, about 40 miles south of Cathead Bay. Last year the Piping Plover population reached a high of 81 pairs: 76 spread across five states, plus 5 in Ontario, on all five Great Lakes. Not only have the resilient shorebirds returned to remote coasts, they have also started families on human-built beaches and in the shadows of skyscrapers.

Read story at : After Four Decades, Efforts to Save Great Lakes Piping Plovers Are Seeing Signs of Major Success | Audubon