Research Paper On Western Snowy Plover

The adults have pale, gray-colored upper body and white undersides. The legs of the bird are orange. Breeding adults have a black forehead, breast bands, and black-tipped orange bill. Non breeding adults have neither the forehead, breast bands, and their bills are entirely dark. The voice of the Piping Plover is a clear, whistled “peep-lo.”

Fly Eagles Fly. The National Football League (NFL) Superbowl LII, the championship game the 2017 season was one for the record books. The heavily favored, love them or hate them for a myriad of reasons team, the New England Patriots lost the underdogs Philadelphia Eagles.

Lane Spotted Elk is a Montana State University student from the tribe Northern Cheyenne/Crow. Lane has a strong social side of the health triangle. He worked at the Boys and Girls club which made a big impact in his life. OPI Honor Yourself Poster Series states that “‘I was at the point...I needed something bigger than myself.” So lane turned to the Boys and Girls club…” This quote shows that Lane had the ability to ask for help which is part of the health triangles social side. He actually took advice from other people, in his case the Boys and Girls club. “Lane...was nominated as a representative… and was named as the representative from Montana…” (OPI Honor Yourself Poster Series) This evidence makes it clear that Lane's Social side is strong,

Throughout the existence of the habitable world, many species have roamed around the surface of the Earth, some withstanding natural selection and defining the term survival of the fittest as superpowers and domination claimed the territory; for instance, the Mustelidae family has diversely distributed its subdivisions through the process of evolution in order to be able to withstand the environmental changes in their ecosystem and compete for the natural resources provided by mother earth. In addition, the semiaquatic specie, the mink, has undertaken the process of evolution and expanded throughout numerous regions of the world, creating differences between the species and eventually generating related cousins and others. During its existence, the minks have left their footsteps in the evolutionary process of the development of other animals and has influenced numerous cultures as human have adapted their way of living

I have shown a variety of both livestock and general projects in my ten years as a 4-H member. My first livestock project was Mallard ducks and since then my waterfowl project has expanded. I showed my Mallard ducks for five years. Unfortunately a mink killed my entire flock. After I lost my flock, I was given a set of Giant African Dewlaps from a family friend which I named Linus and Lola. A few years later the same family friend offered to give me his pair of Giant Toulouse Dewlap geese. He was having difficulty finding someone to take care of them when he traveled and felt they could have a better home with me. I have shown these geese at the Illinois State Fair and have won Best Heavyweight Goose and Gander and Reserve Best Heavyweight

Whooping cranes nearly died out in the mid 20th century, with a count finding only 16 living birds. But since then, these endangered animals have taken a step back from the brink of extinction. Breeding programs have boosted their numbers, and breeding efforts have raised the number of wild birds to over 200, with roughly the same number living in captivity. These white birds are the tallest in North America. They live in family groups and stay in marshes, shallow lakes, and lagoons. Cranes feed by foraging with their bills and gobbling up plants, shellfish, insects, fish, and frogs.

The American Mink (Neovison Vison) is a semi-aquatic animal that lives in forested areas where there are ponds and lakes for them to swim. They feed on frogs, cray fish, muskrats, birds and ground squirrels (Fur Commission USA). Their ranges vary by gender, male minks can inhabit 2.5 miles of stream or river to about 2, 500 acres of wetland territory while female minks inhabits much less wetland only about 40 acres and about 1 mile of stream or river. Male minks tend to hunt more than females during the spring time, so it is more likely a male mink will be spotted over a female mink (Magnusdottir et al. 2014). There has not been a mink spotted in Abernathy filed station

“California has it’s own list of endangered species of animals.” Like all states, California is home to many species of animals that are listed and protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. (http://www.allaboutwildlife.com/endangered-species/californias-endangered-animals/6037)

My invasive species that I’m investigating is the American mink it is invasive in England. The American mink came from North America, and got brought to England in 1929 for fur farming.

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is one of the largest spread mammals in the North region of America. White-tailed deer are grayish brown in the winter and red-brown in the summer (Curtis and Sullivan 2001). Compared to female deer (does), male deer (buck) have antlers and they weigh between 125-200 pounds. Female deer weigh less than male deer. (Curtis and Sullivan 2001). White-tailed deer are opportunistic animals that take advantage of unexploited areas. They are mostly found on the edge of the forest, shrub lands, agricultural fields, open grasslands, and suburban areas (Curtis and Sullivan 2001).

The western snowy plover (Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus) has a pacific coast population that breeds primarily on coastal beaches from southern Washington to southern Baja California, Mexico. The major coastal habitats include sand spits, dune-backed beaches, beaches at creek and river mouths, and salt pans at lagoons and estuaries. Other nesting locations include bluff-backed beaches, dredged material disposal sites, salt pond levees, dry salt ponds, and river bars (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2001). Plovers often return to the same breeding sites yearly. Nesting locations occur in flat, open areas that have sparse vegetation with sandy or saline substrates. Western snowy plovers have been listed as threatened on the federal endangered species list since 1993, and are listed as a species of special concern by the state of California (California Department of Parks and Recreation, 2015).

In January wood ducks begin to mate and breed. A male wood duck is known as a drake while the female wood ducks are known as hens.

Like many creatures in nature, piping plovers need protection to make sure the species survives. The piping plover is a beautiful, small shorebird. There are only about 7,000 of them in the world.

Helen Oyeyemi’s novel Boy, Snow, Bird deals with tendentious issues such as abuse, race, beauty, and mother daughter relationships. Many of these issues are blatantly illustrated throughout this story between different characters. Often more than one relationship deals with each of these issues, and most of these relationships deal with more than one issue at a time. That being said, some of the relationships deal with their issues and themes in a much more subtle way than others. One relationship in particular deals with issue very subtly, Charlie and Boy’s. Charlie and Boy grew up together in the same town, and he even asked her to prom, wrote to her, toke her to see fireworks (Oyeyemi 7-9). The two of them formed an unspoken sporadic romance. The relationship between Charlie and Boy acts as a window into the circle of abuse and abandonment, builds a foundation of feigning a position of power, and connects to the theme of beauty.

Have you ever heard of a Viking Vallhund? Well, at least that’s what we call them. The official pages say “Swedish Vallhund”. These remarkable dogs have been around since the Vikings, and are well known for their herding skills and good percentage of people know about and love them for their frequent shedding habits, strong willed mind, and find them worth the high price that the Swedish Vallhund undoubtedly has. Unfortunately, it hasn’t always been that way. In 1942, this breed was almost extinct and are today are still rare.They look like a adorable mix of an corgi and a wolf, not to mention having three kinds of tails, so that you never know what you are going to get. This looks are making things pretty sweet for them-