In urban environments plovers may lay their eggs on roof tops for safety.
Plovers nesting on roof.
Masked lapwings try to chase dogs or people away from their nests.
They pretend to be injured to draw a predator away from their eggs.
Plovers like to nest in short grass on flat ground with plenty of open space around them which is why they are often seen on sporting ovals.
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.
Plovers keep nesting on our flat roof every year and on our neighbour s.
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.
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.
In most cases the chicks will be able to jump down safely from the roof.
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They drive everyone crazy with their squawking through the night and they terrify all the kids with their super aggressive constant swooping.
They nest on your roof or in the grassy gap between the footpath and road.