Western Snowy Plovers
Personal memory by Mary Keitelman
Western Snowy Plovers used to nest on Pacifica State Beach, California until around 1970. They now only over-winter as people and their pets crowd the beach - literally taking the habitat away from these little birds, who survived through the millennia by camouflage. Although many people walk right through them and we could say that their camouflage works - in reality, they no longer have a place to breed due to the many footsteps that make their way to ancient breeding grounds, now a beach next to a town that is only beginning to learn it has these little birds as co-residents.
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