Snowy Plover (snpl) data sets 1. Population survey data 1a. Population survey data of the Texas population (snpl_population survey_Texas.csv) year: the year in which the survey was conducted lake: the lake where the survey was conducted date: Julian date when the survey was conducted count: count data 1b. Population survey data of the New Mexico population (snpl_population survey_New Mexico.csv) year: the year in which the survey was conducted date: Julian date when the survey was conducted count: count data 1c. Population survey data of the Oklahoma population (snpl_population survey_Oklahoma.csv) year: the year in which the survey was conducted grid: the grid cell in which the survey was conducted count: count data 1d. Distance sampling data of the Oklahoma population (snpl_distance sampling_Oklahoma.csv) year: the year in which the survey was conducted grid: the grid cell in which the survey was conducted count: count data distance: the distance between the observer and the counted birds 2. Encounter history data (snpl_encounter history.csv) id: individual identity cohort: age-sex class at the first capture af: adult female am: adult male jf: juvenile female jm: juvenile male ju: juvenile without sex information region: region of the survey, Texas, New Mexico, or Oklahoma f: year of the first encounter year_1998 ~ year_2018: encounter history from 1998 through 2018 0: not seen 1: resighted but not recaptured 2: recaptured but not resighted 3: resighted and recaptured 3. Nest survey data (snpl_nest survey.csv) year: the year in which the survey was conducted region: region of the survey, Texas, New Mexico, or Oklahoma clutch: clutch size, 1, 2, or 3 fate: clutch fate 0: fail 1: succeed 4. Covariates data 4a. Covariates data for Texas (snpl_covariates_Texas.csv) 4b. Covariates data for New Mexico (snpl_covariates_New Mexico.csv) 4c. Covariates data for Oklahoma (snpl_covariates_Oklahoma.csv) year: year palmer: Palmer drought severity index aet: actual evapotranspiration prcp: precipitation tmax: maximum temperature tmin: minimum temperature wind: wind speed