At night, these birds sleep on a rooftop facing his bedroom window. After four years, these birds have become the man's special friends. The reader lobs stones at stray cats with a slingshot to protect his feathered buddies and wonders if there is anything else he can do to help the birds while they're here. Keeping cats away from the area is probably the best thing people can do for their plovers. As for feeding, some birds will eat offered food, but they don't need it here on the main islands.
Plovers eat large numbers of alien invertebrates, plentiful on the main islands.
This includes spiders, cockroaches, centipedes and more. So let your birds eat bugs. Marine science writer Susan Scott's Ocean Watch column appears Mondays in the Star-Bulletin.