Volunteers help plovers keep eggs safe

Volunteers on Half Moon Bay’s beaches are looking for snowy plover eggs, to keep them safe, according to a story by Julia Scott in the County Times:

Within an hour of their discovery on Francis Beach, volunteers erected a netted enclosure to protect the plover family from predators. Finding western snowy plover eggs is so rare, and the chance of their survival so small, that human intervention at this stage has been crucial since the bird was listed as a threatened species in 1993.