Beneficial Management Practices for Saskatchewan Species at Risk: Piping Plover Endangered.
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Beneficial Management Practices for Saskatchewan
Species at Risk:
Piping Plover Endangered
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• Pale, sand-colored back
& head
• White breast & rump
• Orange legs & bill with black tip on bill
• Single black band on breast and forehead
• Clear-toned “pipe” call
Randy McCulloch
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• Nest in sparsely vegetated, moist, gravelly or sandy shorelines along saline or prairie lakes
• Eat freshwater invertebrates along the shoreline
• Located in the central and southern portions of the province
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• Status: Endangered
• Declined due habitat loss, changes in water levels, human use of beaches and predation
• 1,420 birds in Saskatchewan
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Beneficial Management Practices
Grazing
• Keep livestock away from plover nesting sites during breeding season
• Graze shorelines only in late summer or fall or possibly early spring
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Altering Waterbodies
• Avoid draining wetlands
• Avoid constructing dams or dugouts that divert water away from natural waterbodies
• Avoid constructing dams or diversions that result in flooding during plover breeding season
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Water Level Management
• Provide off-site watering for livestock
• Stagger timing of withdrawal if using more than one waterbody
• Drawdown water 2-3cm/week in spring and summer
• Reflood dry waterbody or hardpan shorelines 2-3 cm/week