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Hooded Plover populations are declining throughout their range due primarily to increasing recreational use of beaches, the urbanisation of coastlines and the establishment of feral predators. Using data from surveys collected along the ocean beaches of the Coorong and SE coast, as far as the Victorian border, the incidence and abundance of Hooded Plovers can be collated and summarised to: estimate the density of Hooded Plovers on Coorong ocean beaches; analyse trends within the population over time; and identify possible disturbance factors.
Ongoing monitoring, breeding success data, looking to use community effort to monitor during breeding season, data collection from Murray Mouth and most of the South East coastline, to Kingston (the extent of the Coorong), also extends to VIC boarder.
The aim is to assess the impact of recreation, especially off road vehicle use, and foxes on the Hooded Plover population during the breeding season. The data is used to verify and justify when to close the beach so that the birds can breed.
Management Action Plans will be derived from this information to add to the existing one.
Data from 2016 is available via Project 1361 - BEACH-NESTING BIRD - BIRDLIFE AUSTRALIA.
Data 2012-14 has been loaded into this 229 project on BDBSA.
Historic 1982-2000 data is not loaded yet. It was based on zones that range from 20-110km wide, so centroids with large spatial reliability would need to be assigned. Zones are: VICTORIAN BORDER TO CARPENTER ROCKS; CARPENTER ROCKS TO SOUTHEND; SOUTHEND TO NORA CREINA; NORA CREINA TO ROBE; ROBE TO KINGSTON; KINGSTON TO 42 MILE
42 MILE TO MURRAY MOUTH.
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