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JWM: Nest cages boost piping plover survival

February 4, 2022

Placing cages around piping plover nests helps boost bird populations by keeping predators away from young chicks and eggs. But some wildlife managers had found dead adult plovers around these cages and worried that they …

Dana Kobilinsky

For plovers, manmade habitat falls short of the real thing

January 18, 2018

Efforts to use manmade habitat to help conserve threatened piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) on the Missouri River have helped, but they fell short of the work that nature would do, according to a recent study. …

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Male and female plovers cooperate more as climate changes

June 21, 2017

As temperatures get warmer and more variable with climate change, male plovers are taking on more of the incubation duties, a new international study demonstrates. “Climate influences parental cooperation,” said Orsolya Vincze, first author on …

TWS Local News

Damage management concepts posed in OSU animal science talk

March 28, 2016

On March 4, as the guest lecturer on “Contentious Social Issues in Animal Sciences” at Oregon State University, I discussed damage management as an important component of wildlife management. Most of the 110 students were …

Dana Kobilinsky

Wild Cam: How Airplanes Ruffle Plover Feathers

December 2, 2015

Wilson’s plovers (Charadrius wilsonia) would probably do well with a little peace and quiet when incubating their eggs — whether from natural predators, humans, vehicles and, according to recent research, aircraft. The U.S. Marine Corps …

Joshua Rapp Learn

TWS Member Identifies Strategies to Protect Snowy Plovers

October 9, 2015

Some birds seem to have more enemies than friends. While coyotes, foxes, crows, ravens and raptors like harriers and owls are always looking to make an easy meal of the western snowy plover (Charadrius nivosus), …

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