Platte River Ecosystem Resources and Management, with Emphasis on the Big Bend Reach in Nebraska
Tables
Table 10. Numbers of adult Least Terns (LT) and Piping Plovers (PP), percentages of all individual birds using sand pits, and the number of sandbar and sand pit nesting sites on the central and lower reaches of the Platte River, 1988-1991. Data were derived from Lingle (1993a), and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission (1988, 1989, and unpublished data), and Sidle et al. 1991.
| Central Platte | Lower Platte | |||||||||||
| Number of Birds | % of Birds |
No. Nesting Sites | Number of Birds | % of Birds |
No. Nesting Sites | |||||||
| Year | LT | PP | LT | PP | Bar | Pit | LT | PP | LT | PP | Bar | Pit |
| 1988 | 124 | 96 | 61 | 62 | 6 | 16 | 497 | 161 | 26 | 19 | 24 | 11 |
| 1989 | 194 | 94 | 94 | 64 | 6 | 16 | 409 | 188 | 14 | 13 | 38 | 10 |
| 1990 | 176 | 74 | 91 | 78 | 3 | 17 | 361 | 149 | 40 | 35 | 23 | 13 |
| 1991 | 158 | 58 | 87 | 76 | 3 | 14 | 295 | 73 | 30 | 37 | 35 | 11 |
| Mean | 163.0 | 80.5 | 83.2 | 70.0 | 4 | 15.8 | 390.5 | 142.8 | 27.5 | 26.0 | 30.0 | 11.2 |
| SD | 29.9 | 18.0 | 15.1 | 8.2 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 85.0 | 42.3 | 10.8 | 11.8 | 7.6 | 1.3 |
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