Hooded Plover

Wednesday, 02 November 2022

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Controlling Australia’s feral pests means using 1080 baits – or wildlife will suffer

The Observer 10 Oct 2022

We may not like it, but killing feral animals is an action we need to take if we truly care for Australia’s environment and wildlife ... The numbers add up ... Read more ... Bush stone curlews reappeared after 40 years of no sightings and populations of threatened malleefowl, hooded plovers and Rosenberg’s goannas stabilised or increased ... Free daily newsletter.

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Keep calm and carry on: bird-swooping season is under way but there’s no need to panic

The Observer 26 Sep 2022

The magpie had met its match, however ... “I was able to practise what I preach but I felt a bit indignant,” he laughs ... The plover, with a spur on the bend of its wing, also makes Dooley’s list of formidable swoopers. Plovers nest on the ground, where their chicks and eggs easily camouflaged. The hooded plover can be a formidable swooper Photograph ... .

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Numbers of threatened hooded plover increase on Eyre Peninsula

Australian Broadcasting Corporation 16 Sep 2022

The number of fledgling chicks from the 2021/22 breeding season has tripled, much to the delight of conservation workers ... .

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Dog urine to the rescue of threatened hooded plovers

Phys Dot Org 08 Sep 2022

Weighing about 100 grams, the small but mighty hooded plover remains an icon of Australia's beaches ... Dog urine to the rescue of threatened hooded plovers (2022, September 8) retrieved 8 September 2022 from https.//phys.org/news/2022-09-dog-urine-threatened-hooded-plovers.html.

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LOCAL PERSPECTIVE

The Montanian 17 Jun 2022

Reflections on Memorial Day Traditions. A Column by Tony Smith ... According to Stephen E ... Birds that breed in these prairie potholes include the Hooded Merganser, American Golden Plover, the Blue-winged Teal, and the Northern Pintail, to name just a few ... THE BAKER MASSACRE ... Louis Fair ... American Indians and the Board School Experience.” Adams writes. ... .

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Bird Watch: Sightings in Greater Newburyport and beyond

Newburyport Daily News 27 May 2022

Sanderling, Black-crowned Night-Heron, House Wren, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Alder Flycatcher, Tri-colored Heron, Green Heron, Seaside Sparrow, Hooded Warbler, Nashville Warbler, White-rumped Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Semipalmated Plover, Common Nighthawk, Blackpoll ...

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More than 200 Australian birds are now threatened with extinction, and climate change is the ...

Phys Dot Org 01 Dec 2021

Up to 216 Australian birds are now threatened—compared with 195 a decade ago—and climate change is now the main driver pushing threatened birds closer to extinction, landmark new research has found ... The numbers tell the story ... What went wrong? ... They include the eastern hooded plover, Kangaroo Island glossy black-cockatoo and eastern bristlebird ... ....

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Trekking the Great Ocean Walk: ‘Stand with no land mass between your sweaty skin and Antarctica’

The Observer 21 Nov 2021

Darting and bobbing on spindly pink legs, the hooded plover places pebbles, seaweed and other beach debris around its nest at the high water mark on Johanna beach ... There are just 1,000 or so hooded plovers left, estimates area chief ranger for Colac Otway – Parks Victoria, Carl Gray ... Johanna beach is the halfway point of the 110km Great Ocean Walk ... .

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Would you dob on a dog? Wildlife cops on the bird beat warn beachgoers of ...

Australian Broadcasting Corporation 12 Oct 2021

The hooded plover nests in sand and has just a 2 per cent survival rate, which is why Victoria's environment police want you to report beachgoers who do the wrong thing ... .

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And then there were 10: Australian bird of the year heads into final tense day of voting

The Observer 06 Oct 2021

The cassowary is long gone. So too the sulphur-crested cockatoo, the swift parrot, the shy albatross and the spotted pardalote ... @matildaboseley pic.twitter.com/io4SFs2WQX— Rex Patrick (@Senator_Patrick) October 6, 2021 ... tomato sauce ... Debbie Lustig. Read more ... https.//t.co/MgJvlJCTw4 ... How lovers of the hooded plover are helping the species recover ... .

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How lovers of the hooded plover are helping the species recover

The Observer 04 Oct 2021

The story of the hooded plover is actually a story about people, Port Fairy author Jock Serong says ... Stephen Johnson has been helping hooded plovers for 15 years, and heads up a Friends of the hooded plover group on 42km of coastline around Inverloch ... Johnson bristles slightly at the suggestion that the hooded plovers’ biggest enemy is itself.

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Locals fight to save Kangaroo Island's endangered hooded plovers as beach car access increases

Australian Broadcasting Corporation 17 Mar 2021

An increase in car beach access on Kangaroo Island — which is home to around 200 adult hooded plovers — has seen the bird's population decline, conservationists say ... .

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Breeding success for vulnerable bird after years of disappointment

Australian Broadcasting Corporation 04 Feb 2021

For the first time since 2015, volunteers see hooded plover chicks nesting on Robe's iconic Long Beach survive to fledging ... .

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Plover patrol helps keep threats at bay

The Daily Telegraph Australia 10 Jan 2021

As hooded plover chicks hatch from their nests at beaches across Victoria’s south west, Conservation Regulator officers are patrolling local beaches to protect the threatened species ....

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My 2020 in Melbourne has been tiny and enormous, with nothing in between

The Observer 01 Jan 2021

There’s no one on the beach the night 2020 arrives. The fireworks have been cancelled. We break out a few boxes of sparklers and write our names in the air, comet tails mirrored in the wet sand. Seagulls wheel over us. We laugh at the empty beach. Not even any teenagers roaming the sand for a random pash ... Sophie Black ... A pair of hooded plovers watch us ... .