Conserve Wildlife: Banded Piping Plover Continues to Defy Expectations


Photo Credit: conservewildlifenj.org

From Conserve Wildlife: Some of you may recall an earlier blog (If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try, and Try Again, July 27, 2011) posted by Emily Heiser, one of our seasonal technicians, in which she reported on a piping plover that had nested four times this year. One reason we know so much about this individual bird is because it is one of just a few banded piping plovers found in New Jersey-it was originally banded in the winter of 2010 in the Bahamas.


This specific bird, dubbed Bahama Mama by our staff, was first observed this year at North Brigantine Natural Area on March 29. It spend the next several months finding a mate, laying and incubating eggs, and finally trying to raise young, a cycle that ended unsuccessfully near the beginning of August.  

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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 10/16/2011 10:00 AM
Categories: Birds
Tags: bahamas birds piping plover banding north brigantine natural area
 

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