Title: To save plovers, a decision to kill predators Mass Post by: Donna on 16-Jul-12, 06:47:06 AM http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120712/NEWS/207120353/-1/NEWS05 (http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120712/NEWS/207120353/-1/NEWS05)
In Massachusetts alone, 30 percent of nests are unsuccessful because of predators such as crows, sea gulls, foxes, skunks, raccoons, rats and coyotes, who eat the nests, according to USFWS. |