Many Audubon chapters provide opportunities to help protect Western Snowy Plovers, California Least Terns, and Black Oystercatchers, often in partnership with State Parks and CA Department of Fish and Game and other landowners. You can help!
The final recovery plan for the Pacific Coast Population of the Western Snowy Plover, completed in 2007, is available from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
In Venezuela, the common name for our Snowy Plover is Frailecito or "Little Friar," as if these quiet birds wearing somber colors were sequestered in a monastery made of sand. Dark glittering eyes beneath a cowl of sandy brown have earned them this name.
This site is devoted to the protection and recovery of the Western Snowy Plover, a small, rare, and threatened shorebird that makes its home on certain beaches on the Pacific coast.
