I agree with Mark....I have seen this species drop in numbers so quickly it is shocking in my birding years.....If we don't protect the few breeding places left carefully, I can easily see our Texas Skimmers going extinct not to far in the future...They are just not producing enough young to maintain the population anymore due to compromised breeding habitat...A single hurricane or TS can wipe out a year's nesting effort...Humans with off road traffic, dogs, predators including Laughing Gulls that take advantage of human disturbance that forces adult skimmers to leave the nest just for a few moments so LAGUs can rob nests are likely to doom this species....I don't just considered the species threatened, I consider them endangered, very endangered as the human population continues to swell unabated and people demand the same beaches these birds need to breed..........Next in line...Least Tern inland or otherwise....Just my bent nickel. We just did 60 miles of Padre Is. shoreline one way to the Mansfield cut...In that entire route I counted only 13...All adults...no hatch year vbrds at all....... Brush Freeman