The Endangered Piping Plover
Dr. P had an opportunity to work with biologists from the Little Traverse Bay Band of the Odawa Indians. They helped a group of dedicated researchers from the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan. These birds are not just a research project to these biologists, and they showed it by the gentle and professional manner in which they caught and banded several chicks and one adult. Our destination is a small island where the plovers nest It was a 2 hour boat ride to get to the isolated island out in one of the Great Lakes This sign greets
