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The elite one percent jet off to Nantucket http://www.care2.com/causes/produced-in-your-backyard-rethinking-energy.html to escape the stresses of city life. But the Massachusetts island also happens to be an important habitat for a seabird -- the piping plover. Now that the birds are doing well on the island from 139 breeding pairs (1986) to 689 pairs (2015), the headaches and complaints have also increased. The complaints have gotten so bad that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is considering relaxing the rules by granting a 25-year permit to the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MADFW). Risky Flexibility Nantucketers may like to think of themselves as a rare breed, but the only threatened http://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/pipingplover/pipingpl.html species on the beach is the piping plover. And the…

How effective are the measures being taken by interest groups to ensure the survival of the hooded plovers on the Southern Australian coastline? Introduction: The Thinornis rubricollis rubricollis but more commonly known as the hooded plover is a stocky bird that stands at 10 centre metres tall and 20 centre metres wide, the bird that is a vulnerable specie in the South Australian coastline area, Whilst it is Endangered in both Victoria and New South Wales (Bird Life Australia, NA), refer to…

The piping plover is a small shorebird that stands at about seven inches tall. The color on the back is a light gray and the breast and belly are white. One black ring wraps around the back and sides of the neck, but does not connect in the front. The legs are yellowish in color and the bill may be all black or yellow at the base and black at the tip. Piping Plovers feed on insects that they pick off the surface of the ground. Their habitat is by mudflats, sandy beaches, and shallow wetlands…

this investigation is to help show how people could help save the Hooded Plovers from extinction. People tend to think that the beaches are just covered in sand. For many years now, people have been visiting beaches around South Australia; and which has out a negative impact on the flora and fauna. The Hooded Plovers are highly endangered. There are less then 800 Hooded Plover in South Australia, and only 7,000 in Australia. The main reason that the Hooded Plovers are under threat is because the…

Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s artwork titled The Plover Crystal River in Mutsu Province is a 3 piece colored artwork. These pieces are apart of a larger series called The Six Crystal Rivers. These pieces are made from 1847 to 1848. Utagawa had used a popular style of woodblock prints and paintings during the Edo period called ukiyo-e. Although they can be displayed separately on their own, the prints can be put together to form an even larger piece of artwork. These series of prints are 14 inches…

Similar to the mutually beneficial relationships of wild animals, liberalism is a theory founded on the principles of cooperation and relationships within an anarchic system. The animal kingdom, an undisputed anarchic system, exemplifies an institutionalized relationship between two species. A crocodile will allow an Egyptian Plover bird to clean its teeth, because their symbiotic relationship helps both of them in different ways. The crocodile ends up with a cleaner mouth and the plover bird…

the answer was to ban DDT, reintroduce the falcons into the New York area where they are starting to thrive again and then continue to monitor the situation by birdcams and analyzing carcasses and unhatched eggs for DDT and other contaminants (http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7294.html). On the other hand, for the piping plover who is endangered due to human activities, at first hunting and now simply coastal development, recreational activities, and disturbance by off-road vehicles diminishing the…

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Geographic article “Northern Birds Declining as Threats Mount” by Mel White, ornithologists as well as casual bird-watchers have noticed a steady decline in bird population. This does not only apply to only endangered species, but population in common bird species have also declined. In fact, according to a report presented by Mel White in the article shows that “some widespread species generally thought to be secure have decreased in number as much as 80 percent since 1967”. These factors…

Fish and Wildlife Service (2015) lists birds such as the Least Turn (Sterna antillarum), Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus), and Rufa Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) as endangered and threatened. Previously, Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) were listed as endangered, however their populations have stabilized and are now protected under the federal Bald Eagle and Golden Eagle Act. Mammals such as the Gray Bat (Myotis grisescens), Indiana Bat (Myotis sodalis), and Northern Long Eared Bats…