Snowy Plover Range Map
The Snowy Plover breeds along the Pacific Coast from southern Washington to Baja California, and locally from southern Oregon, western Nevada, southwestern Montana, central Kansas, and north-central Oklahoma south to southeastern California and north-central Texas. It also breeds along the Gulf Coast from Florida west to Texas. It winters on islands and in coastal areas from northern Oregon and the Gulf Coast south to Costa Rica. The Snowy Plover inhabits dry sandy coastal beaches above the wash of the tides, sand spits or bars separating the ocean from coastal wetlands, estuarine margins, alkali flats, dry lake beds, or the shores of salt ponds and alkali lakes. It prefers open habitats and avoids thick vegetation and narrow beaches littered with driftwood or backed by bluffs where it might be trapped by high water.

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