Lovely to see. It looks like this one is picking up all the necessary skills for survival. We currently have a pair of lapwing plovers who started out with 4 chicks, but there were only 2 surviving at last count. They have a notoriously high mortality rate here for their chicks.
Jo-Ann HOlden
September 12, 2025 09:22
On average only one loon chick survives, but if they make it through the first year they can live a long life. Plovers are at the mercy of beachgoers and dogs and etc??
Lorraine
September 12, 2025 21:11
Often birds of prey, but the parents let them wander and forage on the roads when they’re still little fluffballs, so risky behaviour too. Dogs are not such a threat, as the parents create an incredible noise and also attack them.
Lovely to see. It looks like this one is picking up all the necessary skills for survival. We currently have a pair of lapwing plovers who started out with 4 chicks, but there were only 2 surviving at last count. They have a notoriously high mortality rate here for their chicks.
On average only one loon chick survives, but if they make it through the first year they can live a long life. Plovers are at the mercy of beachgoers and dogs and etc??
Often birds of prey, but the parents let them wander and forage on the roads when they’re still little fluffballs, so risky behaviour too. Dogs are not such a threat, as the parents create an incredible noise and also attack them.