Piping plover adult breeding dispersal and annual survival in the northern Great Plains, USA, 2014 - 2019

We present a tabular data set representing values used to evaluate intrinsic factors of breeding dispersal and annual survival for northern Great Plains piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) from 2014 – 2019. Data was collected on wetlands and on the Missouri River in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. Data includes breeding state specific observations of adults. The associated manuscript uses a Bayesian capture-mark-resight approach to evaluate breeding dispersal at two spatial scales. In this approach, breeding locations were states and individuals could be seen in assumed, known, or unknown states. Included in the dataset are eight covariates of intrinsic factors and conspecifics, as well as the two capture histories used in the analyses. Data collected was the result of intensive nest monitoring and observations of individuals.