Western snowy plovers, a threatened shorebird whose population the Point Reyes National Seashore has spent years trying to foster on sands from North Beach to Abbotts Lagoon, suffered a high rate of nest failure this year. Thirty of 45 nests that cradled eggs either never hatched, or produced chicks

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