The Plovers in Peril team do a great job helping to protect nesting Ringed Plovers on our beaches. The problem is not so much from predators, as from human pressures. Their nesting grounds are also favoured by walkers, sunbathers, picnickers, and dog walkers, many of whom don’t realise the birds are there – and so eggs and chicks get crushed underfoot unawares, or the parents are kept away for too long and the eggs chill.
Ringed Plovers are in deep decline in Norfolk – numbers had plunged by 77%, but the launch of the Plovers in Peril project has helped arrest the decline and start the recovery. But to continue the good work requires more volunteers.
If you have a few hours to spare between March and August, please consider helping out. To find out more about volunteering on the Plovers in Peril project, please get in touch at pl************@******rg.uk.