Piping Plover - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Tables and Figures
Table 1. Number of piping plover adults and chicks banded with
combinations identifiable to breeding range study area,
1982-2007 …………………………………………………..………….. 8
Table WM1. Results of the 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2006 international
piping plover wintering censuses ………………………………..……... 27
Table WM2. Summary of the extent of nourished beaches in piping plover
wintering and migrating habitat within the conterminous U.S. ............... 33
Table WM3. Number of hardened inlets by state .......................................................... 34
Table WM4. Number of recent groin installation projects in two states, as
reported by USFWS staff ……………………………………………… 36
Table WM5. Summary of predator control programs that may benefit
piping plovers on winter and migration grounds ..................................... 43
Table WM6. Percent of known piping plover winter and migration habitat
locations, by state, where various types of anthropogenic
disturbance have been reported ………………………………………… 46
Table WM7. Military bases that occur within the range of piping plover
wintering and migration grounds and contain piping plover habitat …… 48
Table WM8. Number of sites surveyed during the 2006 wintering International
Piping Plover Census with hardened or developed structures
adjacent to shoreline ……………………………………………………. 52
Table NGP1. The number of adult piping plovers and breeding pairs reported
in the U.S. Northern Great Plains by the IPPC efforts …………………. 92
Table NGP2. The number of adult birds counted during each IPPC in Canada
and the recovery goal for Canada laid out in the 1988 recovery plan …. 94
Table NGP3. Emergent sandbar habitat requirements for plovers under the
2003 Biological Opinion ………………………………………………. 110
Table NGP4. Acres available on Missouri River riverine reaches (including
Lewis and Clark Lake) in 1998 and 2005, adult plover numbers,
and fledge ratios ……………………………………………………….. 112
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