Distribution of Non-Breeding Great Lakes Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) along Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Coastlines: Ten Years of Band Sightings

Waterbirds ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer H. Stucker ◽  
Francesca J. Cuthbert ◽  
Brad Winn ◽  
Brandon L. Noel ◽  
Sidney B. Maddock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Charadrius Melodus ◽  
Piping Plovers

Age-specific survival and recruitment of piping plovers Charadrius melodus in the Great Lakes region

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 437-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah P. Saunders ◽  
Todd W. Arnold ◽  
Erin A. Roche ◽  
Francesca J. Cuthbert
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Charadrius Melodus ◽  
Piping Plovers

Apparent Nest Abandonment as Evidence of Breeding-Season Mortality in Great Lakes Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus)

The Auk ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 127 (2) ◽  
pp. 402-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin A. Roche ◽  
Todd W. Arnold ◽  
Francesca J. Cuthbert
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Breeding Season ◽  
Charadrius Melodus ◽  
Piping Plovers

Auditory and visual threat recognition in captive-reared Great Lakes piping plovers (Charadrius melodus)

2013 ◽  
Vol 144 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 153-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah P. Saunders ◽  
Theresa Wei Ying Ong ◽  
Francesca J. Cuthbert
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Charadrius Melodus ◽  
Piping Plovers ◽  
Threat Recognition

Ecotourism and Birds in Coastal New Jersey: Contrasting Responses of Birds, Tourists, and Managers

1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Burger ◽  
Michael Gochfeld ◽  
Larry J. Niles
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Migratory Birds ◽  
Delaware Bay ◽  
Charadrius Melodus ◽  
Sterna Antillarum ◽  
Least Terns ◽  
Piping Plovers ◽  
Diverse Cultures ◽  
Aesthetic Values

People of diverse cultures appreciate and observe wildlife. With the increase in the importance of economic, social, and aesthetic, values of wildlife comes the responsibility for wise management and use of these resources to ensure biodiversity and the continued wellbeing of the populations. We describe several ways in which ecotourists affect the behaviour, reproductive success, and population levels, of breeding and migratory birds in New Jersey — a heavily industrialized, coastal US state with a dense human population. We use several case-studies to illustrate the effects of ecotourists on birds: heronries, breeding Least Terns (Sterna antillarum), foraging Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) during the breeding season, migrant shorebirds and gulls at Caven Point and Delaware Bay, and migrant hawks at Cape May.

scholarly journals PREDICTION OF CONSOLIDATED COHESIVE BOTTOM EROSION BY WAVE ACTION

2020 ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Tingting Zhu ◽  
Nobuhisa Kobayashi
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Model ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Erosion Rate ◽  
Cohesive Sediment ◽  
Glacial Till ◽  
Sediment Layer ◽  
Sand Layer ◽  
Erosion Process ◽  
Sand And Gravel

A consolidated cohesive sediment layer exists below a layer of sand on some beaches along the Great Lakes (glacial till) and the Gulf of Mexico. The erosion process of consolidated cohesive sediment may be gradual but irreversible (no recovery) apart from sand and gravel released from the eroded consolidated cohesive sediment. The cohesive sediment erosion rate is increased by a thin mobile layer of sand and decreased by a thick sand layer. The complicated interactions of waves, sand and cohesive bottom are simplified and incorporated into an existing cross-shore numerical model.

Factors influencing nest survival and renesting by Piping Plovers in the Great Lakes region

The Condor ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 116 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea H. Claassen ◽  
Todd W. Arnold ◽  
Erin A. Roche ◽  
Sarah P. Saunders ◽  
Francesca J. Cuthbert
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Nest Survival ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Piping Plovers

From the Gulf to the Courts

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Hinnershitz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
West Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
District Court ◽  
The West ◽  
Family Connections

The wreckage of the Vietnam War and new American polices geared toward resettling refugees brought thousands of Vietnamese to the United States. Although many Vietnamese settled on the West Coast and in the Great Lakes region, thousands more came to the Gulf of Mexico through sponsors or established family connections seeking work in the shrimping or oil industries of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. But, as the Vietnamese soon discovered, they were not welcomed by the largely white population who feared competition and distrusted racial outsiders. The Vietnamese fought back in the Houston District Court, filing a civil rights suit against the Klan with the assistance of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

scholarly journals Supportive wind conditions influence offshore movements of Atlantic Coast Piping Plovers during fall migration

The Condor ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 122 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela H Loring ◽  
James D McLaren ◽  
Holly F Goyert ◽  
Peter W C Paton
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
New England ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Charadrius Melodus ◽  
Outer Continental Shelf ◽  
Southern New England ◽  
Piping Plovers ◽  
The U.S

Abstract In advance of large-scale development of offshore wind energy facilities throughout the U.S. Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), information on the migratory ecology and routes of federally threatened Atlantic Coast Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus melodus) is needed to conduct risk assessments pursuant to the Endangered Species Act. We tagged adult Piping Plovers (n = 150) with digitally coded VHF transmitters at 2 breeding areas within the southern New England region of the U.S. Atlantic coast from 2015 to 2017. We tracked their migratory departure flights using a regional automated telemetry network (n = 30 stations) extending across a portion of the U.S. Atlantic Bight region, a section of the U.S. Atlantic coast, and adjacent waters of the Atlantic Ocean extending from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Most adults departed within a 10-day window from July 19 to July 29, migrated nocturnally, and over 75% of individuals departed within 3 hr of local sunset on evenings with supportive winds. Piping Plovers migrated offshore directly across the mid-Atlantic Bight, from breeding areas in southern New England to stopover sites spanning from New York to North Carolina, USA, over 800 km away. During offshore migratory flights, Piping Plovers flew at estimated mean speeds of 42 km hr−1 and altitudes of 288 m (range of model uncertainty: 36–1,031 m). This study provides new information on the timing, weather conditions, routes, and altitudes of Piping Plovers during fall migration. This information can be used in estimations of collision risk that could potentially result from the construction of offshore wind turbines under consideration across large areas of the U.S. Atlantic OCS.

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