Cape Cod National Seashore 2021 shorebird monitoring and management report
Whitmore J. 2024. Cape Cod National Seashore 2021 shorebird monitoring and management report. Natural Resource Data Series. NPS/CACO/NRDS—2024/1403. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado. https://doi.org/10.36967/2301299
Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO) manages the protection of federal and state listed beach-nesting shorebirds (piping plover [Charadrius melodus], least tern [Sternula antillarum], and American oystercatcher [Haematopus palliatus]), and various migrating shorebird species following procedures outlined in the 2018 Shorebird Management Plan/EA and associated Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) (NPS 2018), as well as the 2021 Biological Opinion. This report summarizes monitoring results from the 2021 field season. Piping plover, least tern, and American oystercatcher nesting and brood-rearing behaviors were monitored on over 43 miles of coastline from Provincetown to Orleans, Massachusetts.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Whitmore, Jessica
- Date of Issue
- 2024-01
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- DOI
- 10.36967/2301299
- Units
- CACO , NRSS
- Keywords
- cape cod, least tern, monitoring, oystercatcher, piping plover, shorebird
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Birds , Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | At-risk Biota | T&E Species and Communities