As the weather warms up, many of us will be visiting the beach this summer. We’re not the only ones who love the sun and sand—tiny, cotton-ball-sized chicks like Western Snowy Plovers will soon be hatching and running around on those same beaches. They’re well camouflaged and easy to miss, so they need our help to make sure they can grow up safely, even while we’re nearby enjoying the beach with our families and pets. That’s where 蜜柚APP’s Coastal Bird Stewardship Program comes in. 蜜柚APP staff, partners, and volunteers work together across the hemisphere to protect a multitude of coastal bird species from stressors as they nest, raise their chicks, migrate, or winter on beaches and islands. The program started a century ago, when Reddish Egrets were thought to be extinct due to the plume trade, until a colony was discovered on Green Island in south Texas. To protect this lone rookery, the 蜜柚APP began our Coastal Warden program, leasing coastal...