Piping Plovers Losing Breeding Habitat to Wetland Drainage (IMAGE)

U.S. Geological Survey

Piping Plovers Losing Breeding Habitat to Wetland Drainage

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Piping plovers (chicks and eggs pictured), a federally threatened species of shorebirds, are likely losing wetland breeding habitat in the Great Plains as a result of wetland drainage, climate change or both, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Susan Haig, USGS

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