Goleta Magazine 2022-2023 - 38

EDUCATION
Protecting
the Plovers
UC Santa Barbara's Coal Oil Point Reserve celebrates
20 years helping the tiny shorebirds come back from the brink
THEY'RE
almost
TINY,
perfectly
fluffy and
camouflaged
Top to bottom: Beach
goers at Coal Oil
point Reserve; Snowy
Plover at Coal Oil
Point Reserve; UCSB
researcher conducting
study at Coal Oil Point.
against the sand dunes of the upper
beach at UC Santa Barbara's Coal
Oil Point Reserve (COPR), a collection
of protected habitats on
the coast between Isla Vista and
Goleta. But for all their diminutive
size and near invisibility, Western
snowy plovers have staged a spectacular
comeback, nesting again in
habitat from which they had once
been driven.
It's a triumph of human cooperation
with wildlife, marked by decades
spent protecting the tiny shorebirds
at the reserve, whose populations
were nearing extinction not too long
ago.
The birds are part of a population
that ranges along the West Coast,
from southern Washington State to
Baja California. They are considered
a 'threatened' species by the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, with populations
losing their upper sandy
beach habitats to disturbances such
as encroaching urbanization and
beach grooming.
The current situation is a welcome
change from the more dire conditions
of 2000, around the time
Cristina Sandoval, reserve director,
took the helm at Coal Oil Point, a few
miles west of the UCSB campus and
part of the University of California
Natural Reserve System. By that
BY SON I A FE R NAN D E Z , UC SANTA BAR BARA OF F I CE OF PU B L I C AF FA I R S & COMMU N I CAT I ON S
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