WSP02145

• File Number: 8460.500
• Description: Platte River Recovery Plan
• Basin: South Platte
• Date: 5/12/1988
• Author: USFWS
• Title: Great Lakes & Northern Great Plains Piping Plover ‎(see also 8460.200)‎
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

At one time Piping plovers nested on all four Great Lakes

beaches surrounding Michigan. Past Ereeding records include the

following counties: Alger, Delta, Emmet, Cheboygan, Charlevoix,

Benzie, Mackinac, Chippewa, Muskegon, Leelanau, Berrien,. Monroe,

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Macomb, Tuscola, Huron, Alconai Presque Isle, Schoolcraft, and

St. Clair (Cotrille 1957, Lambert and Ratcliff 1981, Russ.ell

1983). Piping Plovers have not nested in Ohio since 1942. Prior
to that, breeding birds were found along the shore of Lake Erie

in Lucas, Ottawa, Cuyohoga, Erie, Lorain, Lake, and Ashtabula

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counties (Hicks 1933, Trautman 1977, Russell 1983). Similarly,

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nesting in pennsylvania only occurred on Presque Isle (Erie

County) (Todd 1940, Genoways and Brenner 1983). Birds nested in
two counties (Oswego and Cayuga) along Lake Ontario in New York

(Bull 1974) and in Penn Yan (Yates County) (Wilcox 1959).

Gulf of Mexico: A review of past Christmas Bird Counts

(CBC's) indicated Piping Plovers used most ~~ coastal beaches
during the winter. Further support comes from birds collected in

Aransas, Cameron, Nueces, San Patricio, and Matagorda counties.

In addition, Piping Plovers have been reported at Hagerman

National Wildlife Refuge (Grayson County) for more than 20 years.

Museum records indicated that birds wintered in the following

coastal Louisiana parishes: Calcasieu, Cameron, East Baton

Rouge, Jefferson, LaFourche, and Orleans. ~n Mississippi, Piping

'Plovers wintered along coastal beaches in Jackson, Harrison, and

Hancock counties, and the Gulf Shore Islands (Burleigh 1944,

Gandy and Turcotte 1970). Piping Plovers have consistently used

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