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Breeding distribution: Powell et al. (2002) surveyed San Diego County's coastline intensively from 1994 to 1998 and provided an exhaustive view of the Snowy Plover's distribution. Their detailed table enumerated nests rather than birds per site; because of multiple clutches per year, this figure is greater than the number of nesting pairs by 35%. Tracking of banded birds showed that, within a single breeding season, some individuals shift from site to site, although most remain at one site. These variables considered, about half the population breeds in Camp Pendleton, with six to eight nests per year at the mouths of Aliso and French creeks (F4) and 67 to 88 at the Santa Margarita River mouth (G4). The high count of individual plovers was 120 at the latter site 11 June 1997 (B. L. Peterson). At Batiquitos Lagoon (J6/J7), the plovers nest at both the east and west ends on sandy fills installed to provide nesting habitat for the Least Tern,

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