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Facts
Threats
Recovery Plan
Threats 2
Laffy Taffy Jokes
100
This is what the snowy plover colloquially termed.
What is Pingpong bird
100
This introduced invasive plant stabilizes sand, which reduces the amount of quality habitat for Snowy Plovers.
What is European Beachgrass (Ammophila Arenaria)?
100
This is part 2 of the Snowy Plover recovery plan drafted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
What is intensive management of the snowy plover population to mitigate or eliminate threats?
100
The most common non-native predator introduced to the Western Snowy Plover.
What is the domestic dog?
100
Why can't a bank keep a secret
Because there are too many tellers!
200
This is the average time it takes for a chick to leave the nest.
What is 3 hours
200
This seemingly harmless activity that people do for fun on the beach looks like a predator to the Snowy Plovers.
What is kite flying?
200
6 of these groups are what the Snowy Plover population on the Pacific Coast is divided into.
What is a recovery unit?
200
The state with the least individuals of the Western Snowy Plover during breeding season.
Where is Washington?
200
How do trees get on the internet?
They log on!
300
This physical characteristic develops in males during the breeding season.
What is a unibrow?
300
This process helped spread European beachgrass from California and Oregon into Washington
What are winter currents?
300
This is a key feature of part 2 of the recovery plan to provide necessary information about Snowy Plover recovery.
What is education and outreach?
300
The main source of disturbance for the wintering Western Snowy Plovers.
What are humans and domestic dogs?
300
What does a pig write with?
An oink pen
400
The number of nesting sites currently in Washington.
What is 3?
400
European Beachgrass cause many problems for Snowy Plovers. List 2.
What are creation of large foredunes, increased vegetation, habitat for predators, and/or decreased visibility.
400
This is one of the management actions implemented to help recover Snowy Plovers. (List any action mentioned in the presentation)
What is removal of beachgrass? What is predation control? What is development of management plans for publicly owned lands? etc...
400
The method of which humans have introduced new predators to the Western Snowy Plover.
What is urbanization/ coastal development/ increased human activity in general?
400
What do ghosts like on their roast beef?
Grave-y
500
What is one reason you should care about the Snowy Plovers?
They're 1) Adorable 2) Altered food web
500
Too much or too little of this common beach substrate can negatively affect Snowy Plovers.
What is driftwood?
500
This is done to help improve management of snowy plovers and their habitat.
What is research of threats?
500
Every 27 minutes on the weekday and every 43 minutes on the weekends.
How long was the amount of time Western Snowy Plovers were disturbed on the weekdays and weekends?
500
What is a bow that you can't tie
A rainbow!