Tag: Piping Plover
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A tale of star cross'd plovers
In today’s post, Marina Opitz, Discovery leader at Wasaga Beach Provincial Park, regales us with shorebird drama of Shakespearean proportions. Thanks to Neal Mutiger for photographing our leading avian actors. First, let us set the scene for our dramatic tale. Picture an empty beach, orange sunrise gleaming across the waves, when two solitary plovers lock eyes from…
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The Piping Plover power couple of Darlington
Today’s blog comes from Piping Plover Biologist Monica Fromberger from Ontario Parks’ southeast zone. Every year, Darlington Provincial Park runs a Piping Plover conservation program to help these special endangered shorebirds. This year, the park’s plover lovers have done it again! Lovebirds Blue and Miss Howard have successfully hatched, fledged, and raised all four of their chicks…
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The year of high water at Presqu'ile
Today’s post comes from Natural Heritage Education Leader David Bree at Presqu’ile Provincial Park. It was a wet year for provincial parks in 2017. If you visited Lake Ontario this spring, you know water levels reached record highs. By early May, the lake was 10 cm higher than the highest it had ever been since records…