Conservationists who track Interior Least Terns and Piping Plovers in Nebraska are playing a waiting game.
Mary Bomberger Brown with the University of Nebraska School of Natural Resources says last year’s hurricanes may have destroyed the birds’ southern habitats.

Bomberger Brown says she knows some beaches where the birds go were destroyed.

She says the terns and plovers will start returning to Nebraska in mid-April to lay their eggs this summer. The birds depend on vegetation free sandbars in the Missouri River for nesting.