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An excuse to put on rain boots and go play in the mud—and it's good for threatened birds? Have we died and gone to heaven? Point Blue's plover biologists and the CA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife are teaming up to host this exercise in habitat restoration on behalf of a critter that could use some help: the snowy plover. By donning galoshes and walking along the margins of drying ponds, we'll create depressions that the plovers can use as nesting sites, then we'll scatter oyster shells about, which will camouflage eggs and chicks from predators.
Bring rubber boots (they'll have many available if you have none of your own), sunscreen and layered clothing.
Moss Landing Wildlife Area, east side of Hwy 1 just north of the power plant. 9am. Free. S
Learn more about our snowy plover conservation work. Sign-up preferred by 4/1/14. Contact Alison Romano, Membership Manager, at aromano@pointblue.org or 707-781-2555 ext. 320 to sign up.
