Plovers Nesting On Roof

On 17th july 2019 local birder przemek strzelecki found a pair of ringed plovers charadrius hiaticula with four chicks on a warehouse roof at the eastern end of shoreham port sussex.

Plovers nesting on roof.

Bird netting can help exclude magpies. Plovers keep nesting on our flat roof every year and on our neighbour s. The warehouse is less than 100 m from a shingle beach which has in the past been a traditional site for ringed plovers to attempt to nest. Find out more about your buddies.

They are very faithful to a nesting site and once established will return to the same site year after year. In urban environments plovers may lay their eggs on roof tops for safety. Masked lapwings try to chase dogs or people away from their nests. In most cases the chicks will be able to jump down safely from the roof.

They drive everyone crazy with their squawking through the night and they terrify all the kids with their super aggressive constant swooping. Breeding season is from november to june each year and they usually lay 3 to 4 eggs in a small depression in the ground with eggs taking 28 days to hatch. This is a natural process undertaken by many bird species including some ducks who nest in tree hollows and the chicks are remarkably resilient to the long fall but may require assistance if the distance is too great.