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2010 Final Report on the Western Snowy Plovers

Abstract

In 2010 we continued with the monitoring of the WSP population at Coal Oil Point Reserve as in previous years. We estimated chicks until fledged age. We had predator control during most of the breeding season and the loss of nests from skunk predation was greatly reduced. However chick predation from unknown predators was higher than normal. The beach was the narrowest we have observed during the breeding since 2001.