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To view photos of the eggs in a Plover nest hatching please click here.  |
To view the Snowy Plover Gallery, please click
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To view photos of the eggs in a Plover nest hatching please click here. |
To view the Snowy Plover Gallery, please click
here. |
On May 27, 2002, amid hundreds of beach-go-ers, two day-old Western Snowy Plover chicks ran around on the beach, escorted by their father. These photos were taken on Francis Beach at Half Moon Bay State Beach as part of the Plover Watch volunteer program.
 Parent plover with one of
his chicks. |
 Plover chicks begin self-feeding within
hours of hatching. |
 Plover chick only 2 days old. |
 The chicks look like golf balls on
stilts |
 Plover parent with new
chick |
 Close-up of a plover chick
only 2 days old |
 Western Snowy Plover chick. |
 The chicks are difficult to find and
more difficult to photograph as they rarely stand still. |
 Father and chick plovers stay together
for a month |
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 Father plover with 2 of
his 3 chicks. |
 Western Snowy Plover chick - 2 days
old. |
 Three chicks together for
a moment. |
 Parent plover with three
chicks - always in motion |
 Father plover keeps watch
as chicks feed. |
Editor's Note: After about a month, only one of these three chicks survived to fledge. |
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