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Title	Western Snowy Plover Adult Feeding
Creator	Pitkin, D.
Description	The Pacific Coast population of the western snowy plover is federally listed under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 as threatened. Threats include poor reproductive success, resulting from human disturbance, predation, and inclement weather, combined with permanent or long-term loss of nesting habitat to encroachment of non-native European beachgrass and urban development. This has lead to a decline in active nesting, as well as an overall decline in the breeding and wintering population of the snowy plover along the Pacific coast. Human activities, such as walking, jogging, running pets, horseback riding, and vehicle use, are key factors in the ongoing decline in breeding sites and populations. The nesting season of the western snowy plover (March through September) coincides with the period of greatest human use (Memorial Day through Labor Day) on beaches of the west coast. Intensive beach use by humans may result in abandonment of nest sites, reductions in nest density, and reductions in nesting success.
Subject	Birds Shorebirds Threatened species Coastal environments
Publisher	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Date of Original	16 September 2010
Type	Still Image
Format	JPG
Item ID	4996566143_1a2f5d8c6b_b
Source	USFWS Pacific Region/Flickr
Rights	Public Domain
File Size	361657 Bytes
Height	674
Width	1024
Color Space	RGB
Full resolution	Volume237/4996566143_1a2f5d8c6b_b.jpg http://digitalmedia.fws.gov/FullRes/natdiglib/Volume237/4996566143_1a2f5d8c6b_b.jpg
Date created	2011-05-11
Date modified	2011-05-11