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Least Tern Project info
2011
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2010
Least Tern & Snowy Plover Project
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9th - Annual
Report for 2009 |
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ANNUAL
REPORT
You’re thinking….”but the season isn’t
over yet,” how can they get a report out so soon?
This is last years report- just finalized by the Department
of Fish and Game. Once you look it over, you can appreciate
all of the great science involved in monitoring, analyzing,
and evaluating the results. Statewide CLT land managers and
monitors get together each year to evaluate these results,
present papers on various studies (food sources, predation,
control, case studies, toxicity, algal blooms, etc.) and try
to find better management actions for this endangered species.
It’s been 9 days since the last observed chick taking
by American Kestrel at the Natural Preserve. I trust we are
over the siege by kestrels for this year. Wally and I believe
we now have a pre-loaded problem for next season as we observed
both adult and juvenile kestrels feeding. Maybe the conditions
have changed just enough so the young of the year are all
big and strong enough to evade capture or be considered as
too large for taking. Lately, the predominate sightings are
of very large fledglings.
Has anyone seen a banded fledgling? Please make a note as
there may be other colony birds moving through the area. We
also ask you to make a count of fledglings you see roosting-
usually on the beach front. A count of “many”
does not play into the science behind the annual report.
A curious note- if you look at the number of nests from the
2009 report and compare that with Cyndie Kam’s last
monitoring report, they are the same number- 434!
Thanks for showing up to this season’s nesting season-
David
Pryor
Environmental Scientist
949-497-1421
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