The Prince Edward Island National Park has been conducting studies on this species for the past 10 years in the Park. During 1987 the Park reported 21 pairs of Piping Plovers, which was 36% of all Piping Plovers nesting Canadian National Parks and 1% of the worlds population.

The high nesting success of the Piping Plover in the National Park is considered a direct result of having implemented a breeding beach protection program. The following two graphs show the variation in nests over the past 10 years for the whole Park and for specfic beaches. The data was extracted from The 1987 National Park Report by Amanda Crow.

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