Plover Survives July 4th
[ Excerpted from SBN-P, 7/6/2005 ]
Santa Barbara's Independence Day fireworks fizzled, but that is OK with at least one chick at the beach... The Western snowy plover nesting at the Santa Barbara Harbor sand spit survived the booming fireworks launched from a barge off West Beach just a few hundred feet away.
"The snowy plover made it!" said a jubilant Das Williams, a city councilman who doubled as a docent guarding the plover. "The father didn't abandon the nest, or at least he came back."
A snowy plover that is just weeks old was trying to flap his wings on Tuesday morning, ending fears that the loud and raucous show would harm the bird, considered a threatened species by the federal government...
[ SBN-P full text online edition:
Snowy plover chick survives July Fourth fireworks show ]
Santa Barbara's Independence Day fireworks fizzled, but that is OK with at least one chick at the beach... The Western snowy plover nesting at the Santa Barbara Harbor sand spit survived the booming fireworks launched from a barge off West Beach just a few hundred feet away.
"The snowy plover made it!" said a jubilant Das Williams, a city councilman who doubled as a docent guarding the plover. "The father didn't abandon the nest, or at least he came back."
A snowy plover that is just weeks old was trying to flap his wings on Tuesday morning, ending fears that the loud and raucous show would harm the bird, considered a threatened species by the federal government...
[ SBN-P full text online edition:
Snowy plover chick survives July Fourth fireworks show ]
Posted by Malcolm on
7/06/2005
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