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Platte River Ecosystem Resources and Management, with Emphasis on the Big Bend Reach in Nebraska

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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 Data were derived from Lingle (1993a), and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission (1988, 1989, and unpublished data), and Sidle et al. 1991.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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