Posts Tagged ‘Piping Plover’
Productive Piping Plover Year for Delaware
It was a good nesting season for piping plovers in Delaware. Ten pairs were recorded nesting at The Point at Cape Henlopen – a record high for that site since monitoring began in 1989. 15 pairs were documented this year at Fowler Beach on Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge for a total of 25 nesting…
Read MorePiping Plover Production Plummets
It was a down year for piping plover production. According to the Delaware Department of Natural Resources, a record 24 breeding pairs of piping plovers nested at The Point at Cape Henlopen State Park and at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge Fowler Beach. However, they produced a total of 19 fledglings that were able to…
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