You can use these links to learn more about our Partners, Interior Least Terns, Piping Plovers, and other information about birds.

Partners
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
UNL School of Natural Resources
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Nebraska Environmental Trust
Overland Sand and Gravel
Western Sand and Gravel
Lyman-Richey Corporation
Girl Scouts - Great Plains Council
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Lower Platte South Natural Resources District
Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District
Harwest Corporation
Preferred Rocks of Genoa

Tern and plover biology
Piping plover fact sheet
Interior least tern fact sheet

Sand and gravel mining
Pit and Quarry Magazine
National Stone Association
Instream Sand and Gravel Mining: Science and Perspectives

Other bird and conservation-related links
Nebraska Partnership for All-Bird Conservation
Tern, plover, and other bird photos by Wayne Hathaway
Bird sketches by Julie Zickefoose
Shorebird Sister Schools
Audubon Nebraska
Wachiska Audubon
Audubon Society of Omaha
Wildcat Audubon Society
Nebraska Ornithologists' Union
Nebraska Birding Trails
Important Bird Areas
International Migratory Bird Day
Partners in Flight
Pronatura Noreste
American Bird Conservancy
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory
Bluebirds Across Nebraska
Teaming With Wildlife

Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership Merchandise
Nebraska Maps and More Store

Children's Books

• Ahmed and the Nest of Sand - A Piping Plover Story. Written by Kristin Bieber Domm; Illustrations by Jeffrey C. Domm. Nimbus Publishing.
• A Beach for the Birds. Written and photo-illustrated by Bruce McMillan. Houghton Mifflin Company publishers.

Videos

• A Vanishing Melody: The Call of the Piping Plover. Produced by Betty Wills; narrated by James Drury. http://www.earthwave.org
• Price of Water. Produced by NET Television. http://www.netnebraska.org/extras/priceofwater/
• One Good Tern Deserves Another. Produced by Earthwave Society. http://www.earthwave.org

Selected Bibliography

Piping Plovers

Haig, S. M. 1992. Piping Plover. In The Birds of North America, No. 2 (A. Poole, P. Stettenheim, and F. Gill, Eds.). Philadelphia: The Academy of Natural Sciences; Washington, D.C.: The American Ornithologists' Union.

Haig, S. M. 1988a. Genetic Differentiation of Piping Plovers Across North America. Auk 105: 260-267.

Pickwell, G. 1925. Some nesting habits of the belted piping plover. Auk 42: 326-332.

Least Terns

Forys, E. A. and M. Borboen-Abrams. 2006. Roof-top Selection by Least Terns in Pinellas County, Florida. Waterbirds 29(4): 501-506.

Thompson, B. C., J. A. Jackson, J. Burger, L. A. Hill, E. M. Kirsch, and J. L. Atwood. 1997. Least Tern (Sterna antillarum). In The Birds of North America, No. 290 (A. Poole and F. Gill, Eds.). The Adademy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C.

Both Species

Ducey, J. E. 2000. Birds of the Untamed West: The History of Birdlife in Nebraska, 1750 to 1875. Making History (publisher), Omaha, Nebraska.

Lackey, J. L. 1994. Planning Strategies and Recommendations for the Protection of Least Terns and Piping Plovers at Sand and Gravel Mines Along the Lower Platte and Loup Rivers, Nebraska. Master Thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Marcus, J. F., J. J. Dinan, R. J. Johnson, E. E. Blankenship, and J. L. Lackey. 2007. Direct Nest Site Selection of Least Terns and Piping Plovers. Waterbirds 30: 251-258.

Monetary donations to the Tern and Plover Excellence Fund are welcome. Please contact Ann Bruntz at the NU Foundation for more information. 1-800-432-3216.

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