Piping Plover - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Figure NGP7. The number of adults reported for the U.S. and Canada Northern
Great Plains during the International Censuses compared with
the U.S. recovery goal ………………………………………………... 102
Figure NGP8. The number of adult plovers counted on the alkali lakes, ND
and MT, compared with the number of adult plovers counted on
the Missouri River in ND and MT, from 1991 and 1994-2008 ………. 105
Figure NGP9. Adult plovers and fledged young counted on the Missouri River
system, 1994-2008 ……………………………………………………. 106
Figure NGP10. The major nesting areas of the U.S. alkali lakes plovers ……………… 107
Figure NGP11. The number of adult plovers and fledglings documented on the
U.S. alkali lakes, North Dakota and Montana, 1994-2008 …………… 108
Figure NGP12. Distribution of Northern Great Plains piping plovers in Canada ……... 109
Figure NGP13. System storage on the Missouri River at the end of June
(million acre feet) and the number of adult plovers
counted annually ……………………………………………………… 113
Figure NGP14. The number of adult plovers and fledglings counted on manmade
areas in Nebraska since the NTPCP started working in 1999 ………… 117
Figure NGP15. Piping plover nests and permitted oil and gas wells and rigs in
North Dakota and Montana …………………………………………… 118
Figure AC1. Trends in abundance (breeding pairs) and productivity (chicks
fledged per pair) for Atlantic Coast recovery units, 1986-2008 ……… 145
Figure AC2. Ongoing and proposed shoreline stabilization projects in the
USACE New York District, 2009 …………………………………….. 153
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