Piping Plover Season 2024 Piping Plovers have returned to Wasaga Beach Provincial Park once again for the 2024 season! A 2021 Wasaga Beach fledgling, Gotawsi (X,B:O,B (Gdot, B204)), has returned for a second year and found a partner in an unnamed Michigan fledgling...
Piping Plover Season 2023 Our 16th consecutive year with piping plovers on the Wasaga shoreline has proven to be one of the most unusual and challenging of all previous years. The following is a short recap of some of the happenings. On April 23rd the first plover of...
May 2022 It has been an exiting few weeks along the Wasaga Beach shoreline. This year’s excitement began on April 18th with the arrival of Fudge, a male Piping Plover, to Beach Area 1. One week later Flash (male) arrived, and the day after that, Pepa (female). ...
April and May 2021 Exciting news! For the 14th consecutive year Piping Plovers have arrived and set up nesting sites on the shores of Wasaga Beach. Due to COVID-19 and ongoing restrictions, the Piping Plover Volunteer Program is currently on pause for the 2021...
While the start of the 2020 Piping Plover season was unpredictable, park staff were able to begin their on the ground work in mid-May and were therefore able to continue with the Piping Plover Recovery Program at Wasaga Beach Provincial Park this season. Due to...
Spring/Summer 2019 September 1 Thank you to all of our Wasaga Beach piping plover volunteers! All of your hard work is appreciated! Local Update: One of our chicks was presumed missing earlier this season. It was positively identified on its wintering grounds in...
