Corvids and humans create ecological traps in otherwise suitable Snowy Plover habitat

Wader Study ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Snowy Plover

Snowy Plover (Charadrius nivosus)

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary W. Page ◽  
Lynne E. Stenzel ◽  
J. S. Warriner ◽  
J. C. Warriner ◽  
P. W. Paton
Keyword(s):  
Snowy Plover

Snowy Plover (Charadrius nivosus)

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary W. Page ◽  
J. S. Warriner ◽  
J. C. Warriner ◽  
P. W. Paton
Keyword(s):  
Snowy Plover

scholarly journals Snowy plover nest site selection, spatial patterning, and temperatures in the Southern High Plains of Texas

2012 ◽  
Vol 76 (8) ◽  
pp. 1703-1711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah T. Saalfeld ◽  
Warren C. Conway ◽  
David A. Haukos ◽  
William P. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Site Selection ◽  
Nest Site ◽  
Nest Site Selection ◽  
High Plains ◽  
Spatial Patterning ◽  
Southern High Plains ◽  
Snowy Plover

The plight of a plover: Viability of an important snowy plover population with flexible brood care in Mexico

2017 ◽  
Vol 209 ◽  
pp. 440-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Medardo Cruz-López ◽  
Luke J. Eberhart-Phillips ◽  
Guillermo Fernández ◽  
René Beamonte-Barrientos ◽  
Tamás Székely ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brood Care ◽  
Snowy Plover

scholarly journals AGE-RELATED SURVIVAL AND BEHAVIOR OF SNOWY PLOVER CHICKS

The Condor ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 638 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK A. COLWELL ◽  
SUSAN J. HURLEY ◽  
JAMES N. HALL ◽  
STEPHEN J. DINSMORE
Keyword(s):  
Age Related ◽  
Snowy Plover ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Related Survival

Male-skewed adult sex ratio, survival, mating opportunity and annual productivity in the Snowy Plover Charadrius alexandrinus

Ibis ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 153 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
LYNNE E. STENZEL ◽  
GARY W. PAGE ◽  
JANE C. WARRINER ◽  
JOHN S. WARRINER ◽  
KRISTINA K. NEUMAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Charadrius Alexandrinus ◽  
Annual Productivity ◽  
Adult Sex Ratio ◽  
Snowy Plover

scholarly journals Making the best of a bad job? Chick mortality and flexible female brood care in Snowy Plovers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krisztina Kupán ◽  
Tamás Székely ◽  
Medardo Cruz-López ◽  
Keeley Seymour ◽  
Clemens Küpper
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Success ◽  
Dynamic Modelling ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Brood Care ◽  
Modelling Framework ◽  
Mating Opportunities ◽  
Breeding Attempt ◽  
Snowy Plover ◽  
Snowy Plovers ◽  
Female Brood

AbstractOffspring desertion represents a trade-off between current and future reproductive success. Its timing is crucial as the termination of parental care has profound consequences for the fitness of the parents and their offspring. However, the decision process involved with termination of care is still poorly understood. Snowy Plovers Charadrius nivosus show highly flexible brood care with females either deserting the brood early or providing care for an extended period. Deserting females often quickly remate and start a new breeding attempt. Using a dynamic modelling framework, we investigated the decision-making process for continuation or termination of care by females over a seven-year period. The length of female care increased over the season likely reflecting lower re-mating opportunities for deserting females late in the season. Present brood size, assessed daily during the brood care period, was strongly related to the length of female care: females were more likely to stay and care for larger than for smaller broods. Chick death and desertion frequently coincided, suggesting that poor offspring condition served as a trigger for female desertion. Overall, deserting females had a similar number of fledglings to caring females. This suggests that for many females, desertion was not a strategy to escape the shackles of monogamy and secure higher reproductive success through sequential polygamy. Rather, most deserting females made the best of a bad job when conditions were poor and their continued presence did not make a difference for the survival of their young. We conclude that when making the decision to continue or terminate care, Snowy Plover females monitor the condition of their offspring closely and adjust their care flexibly to the value and needs of their young.

scholarly journals Dependence of spatial scale in landscape associations with cause‐specific predation of snowy plover nests

Ecosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen S. Ellis ◽  
Randy T. Larsen ◽  
David N. Koons
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Scale ◽  
Snowy Plover

Salt Water Tolerance and Water Turnover in the Snowy Plover

The Auk ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Purdue ◽  
Howard Haines
Keyword(s):  
Sea Water ◽  
Salt Water ◽  
Weight Class ◽  
Water Tolerance ◽  
Salt Flats ◽  
Snowy Plover ◽  
Maintain Body Weight ◽  
Ad Libitum ◽  
Snowy Plovers ◽  
Maintenance Behavior

Abstract A series of water-related experiments showed that Snowy Plovers do not have any outstanding physiological capabilities for dealing with the potential thermal and osmotic stresses of the Great Salt Plains, Oklahoma. Snowy Plovers and Semipalmated Sandpipers failed to maintain body weight when given 0.3 M NaCl ad libitum. Killdeer did even more poorly by rapidly losing weight on 0.2 M. These salt water tolerance values are limited when compared to other, particularly marine, birds that can drink full strength sea water. The Snowy Plover is no better at conserving water than other birds in its weight class. So plovers without drinking water were able to maintain their weight when furnished mealworm larvae ad libitum, the insectivorous diet as well as maintenance behavior of the birds is essential for their survival on the salt flats.

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