GOLETA, Calif. (Jan. 19, 2017) Western snowy plovers at Sands Beach at Coal Oil Point Reserve on the University of California Santa Barbara campus. The Pacific coast population of the Western snowy plover makes its home along North America’s western coastline from Washington to Baja California, Mexico. The small birds, often no more than six inches long and weighing up to two ounces, have been protected as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act since 1993.

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