On a recent sunny morning at UC Santa Barbara’s Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve, a team of conservationists celebrated a special event.
The Santa Barbara Zoo released 200 Western snowy plovers into the wild as part of a decade-long program to save the endangered birds.
“The Western snowy plover is a tiny shorebird. It’s listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act,” said Nadya Seal Faith, a Conservation & Science Associate with the Zoo…