Table 3.
Emergent sandbar habitat model output by reach including the median number of days each species could nest successfully (initiate a nest and fledge a chick) each year and the percent of years when no period existed when successful nesting could occur as well as the percent of years when the entire nesting season was suitable for successful nesting
| Reach | Model Period | Median success window (days) | No success window (% of years) | Season‐long success window (% of years) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piping plover | Least tern | Piping plover | Least tern | Piping plover | Least tern | ||
| LPR reach | 1954–2012 | 4 | 21 | 42 | 17 | 22 | 25 |
| Contemporary AHR | 1954–2012 | 0 | 14 | 53 | 29 | 25 | 29 |
| Historical AHR | 1895–1938 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 68 | 5 | 7 |