Western Snowy Plover Monitoring at Golden Gate National Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service)
Western Snowy Plover Monitoring at Golden Gate National Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service).
Western Snowy Plovers are excellent indicators of the health and diversity of sandy beach ecosystems. The National Park Service began monitoring overwintering Western Snowy Plovers at Ocean Beach in 1994 and at Crissy Field in 2004.
- Type
- Web Site
- Date of Issue
- 2026-09-30
- Units
- SFAN
- Keywords
- birds, Breeding, monitoring, ocean beach, Resource Brief, San Francisco Bay Area, seashores, SFAN, snowy plover, Threatened, Threatened and Endangered Species, vital sign, west coast, western snowy plovers
- License
- Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal