{"id":10173,"date":"2020-06-30T14:17:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T18:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northwoodscenter.org\/wordpress\/?p=10173"},"modified":"2020-06-30T14:27:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T18:27:42","slug":"refuge-reflections-protecting-plovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northwoodscenter.org\/wordpress\/refuge-reflections-protecting-plovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Refuge Reflections: Protecting Plovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.84%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.88%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">While we often highlight the youth crew leaders and members who train with us and work on USFWS Refuges across New England during the summer season, we also hire for specialty seasonal positions and internships. These employees are trained by and work alongside USFWS scientists on specific conservation goals for that refuge. At the Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex, this includes Nicole DeFelice, a Shorebird Biological Technician who was slated to be the leader of a Shorebird intern crew this year, but due to COVID-19 is covering the full slate of shorebird monitoring and protection without a crew this year. Her tasks include performing biweekly monitoring of ten different beaches, looking for piping p<span class=\"il\">lover<\/span> activity such as territory establishment, nesting, and the raising of chicks to fledgling age.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">We recently caught up with Nicole and her work at the RI NWRC, and she sent us an update of their work so far this season, along with some wonderful photos of the federally threatened piping plovers she is helping to monitor and protect.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;In the beginning of the breeding season we try to sight every piping <span class=\"il\">plover<\/span>\u00a0we can on the beach. This involves walking around with a spotting scope and scanning the beach for the small, well camouflaged birds. We keep our eyes peeled for any colored bands and tiny flags on their legs that will have a three digit code as a way to identify the bird. This makes it a lot easier to decipher which bird is which since males and females look very similar. Once we get a sense of established pairs that seem to be defending territories, we will start the posting. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Piping\u00a0<span class=\"il\">plovers<\/span>\u00a0are very habitual and tend to nest in almost the same exact spot they did the previous year, so we usually post these \u201chotspot\u201d areas. Posting is labor intensive. We pound U-posts into the sand and connect them with yellow ropes and put up many signs that indicate that these areas are roped off for federally protected species (the Piping\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Plover<\/span>\u00a0and the Least Tern) and lots of \u201cno dog\u201d signs since dogs are a huge disturbance to the birds.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Then we look for scrapes. Piping\u00a0<span class=\"il\">plovers<\/span>\u2019 nests are usually very hard to find. They dig a small impression in the sand and that\u2019s about it. If they\u2019re feeling artsy, they might line the outer edge with some shells. So we walk a zig zag pattern along the beach, assuring we search every inch. The tell tale sign of finding a scrape are their pigeon toed tracks. Usually if the scrape is well maintained we will see tons of tracks going in and out of the scrape in all directions. We will mark it with our GPS and check those scrapes the next time we come onto the beach.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Once they start laying eggs, the birds\u2019 behavior changes. They will get very vocal and might give you a \u201cbroken wing\u201d display where they attempt to distract you from getting too close to the nest. Once we find the nest and depending on the beach, we might exclose the nest. By exclosing the nest, we are attempting to keep out any predators that might want to eat the eggs. Predators include crows, hawks, peregrine falcons, coyotes, foxes, mink, skunks, gulls, and owls.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">We just had our first piping\u00a0<span class=\"il\">plover<\/span> nest hatch this past week which is very exciting!!&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/refuge\/Ninigret\/About_the_Complex\/\">Click here to learn more about the work being done at the Rhode Island NWRC<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\" 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