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Rhode Island Status Report: 2000

Summary of Piping Plover Reproductive
Success in Rhode Island: 2000 Nesting Season

Compiled by C. J. Raithel, RI Endangered Species Program, RIDFW.

Site P FY FY/P
SOUTH SHORE Sandy Point I. 1 2 2.00
Napatree Point 5 5 1.00
Maschaug Beach 7 3 0.43
Weekapaug Beach 2 3 1.50
Ninigret Beach 14 29 2.07
Charlestown 0 -- --
Green Hill 0 -- --
Trustom Pond 3 3 1.00
E. Matunuck Bch. 1 0 --
Block Island 1 2 2.00
BAY Narrow River 1 1 1.00
EAST SHORE Briggs Beach 8 4 0.50
Quicksand Pond 6 7 1.17
STATE TOTALS
49 59 1.20


FY = fledged young
P = nesting pairs

Trustom and Ninigret data via Suzanne Paton and Kate Crowell (USFWS); other South Shore data via Sharon Fish, Carol Thompson (USFWS), Narragansett Bay, Sandy Point, E. Matunuck data via R. Ferren,; East Shore data via Cheryl Swinconeck (TNC/RIFO). This report is made possible, in part, by the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act, the Endangered Species Act, The Nature Conservancy, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Ninigret NWR.


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Last updated September 18, 2000