Table 2. Sites with high abundances of Snowy Plovers (Charadrius nivosus).
Records of 20 or more Snowy Plovers, by country. Note, only the highest single count for each site per season per year is included. High counts at Monte Cristi represent cumulative counts over 2-day survey period with the highest single checklist count in parenthesis. Sites designated as IBAs are indicated with IBA code. There are an estimated 950 birds of the Caribbean race C. n. tenuirostris (A Lestershuis pers. comm., 2020). See Data S1 for all records of 10 or more Snowy Plovers.
| High Count | Country | Site |
IBA code |
WHSRN site | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | Bonaire | Salina Matijs | AN009 | 30-Oct-2019 | |
| 20 | Bonaire | Salina Matijs | AN009 | 12-Oct-2018 | |
| 29 | Bonaire | Bopec/Gotomeer | 4-Sep-2015 | ||
| 20 | Bonaire | Bopec/Gotomeer | 14-Sep-2019 | ||
| 40 | Haiti | Fort Liberte Bay | 19-Nov-2015 | ||
| 33 | Cuba | Humedal Sur de Pinar del Rio | CU003 | 30-Jan-2014 | |
| 21 | Cuba | Salinas de Bido | 16-Dec-2015 | ||
| 33 | Puerto Rico | Cabo Rojo | PR008 | yesa | 30-Dec-2012 |
| 30 | Puerto Rico | Piñones | 10-Nov-2017 | ||
| 27 | Puerto Rico | Cabo Rojo | PR008 | yesa | 31-Jan-2011 |
| 20 | Puerto Rico | Cabo Rojo | PR008 | yesa | 5-Aug-2018 |
| 20 | Puerto Rico | Cabo Rojo | PR008 | yesa | 27-Dec-2014 |
| 20 | Puerto Rico | Reserva Natural Las Cucharas | PR011 | 23-Mar-2019 | |
| 22 (19) | Dominican Republic | Monte Cristi | 12-Sep-2016 | ||
| 21 | Turks and Caicos Islands | South Caicos Salinas Pond East | 3-Nov-2013 |
Notes.
a
Site of Regional Importance.