Forgive the snowy plover for its wintry name; the plump little fliers only sound like they live on frigid glaciers. The endangered shorebirds, somewhere in size between a robin and a sparrow, get their moniker from their mostly white feathers and live on the shore, snapping up kelp flies and munching on tiny crustaceans. Spot chicks in summer at Leadbetter Point State Park, which takes up most of the northernmost tip of Long Beach Peninsula—those aren’t tiny cotton balls scattered over the sand.
2 Venture to Oysterville
The Pacific side of Long Beach understandably gets all the attention—big waves, a
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