The powerful May 23 storm that swept across the Cape destroyed most piping plover nests at Sandy Neck Beach Park in Barnstable. “We lost about three-quarters of our nests to that nor’easter,” said ...
Duxbury Beach Reservation caters to two kinds of visitors: the winged and wingless. There are the human visitors who are itching to drive onto the beach with oversand permits and soak in the summer ...
In 1986, the Great Lakes population of piping plovers earned a distinction no species wants. These small shorebirds, which ...
Mikayala Erickson, right, of the St. Louis River Alliance, holds a decoy of a piping plover as she looks through a spotting scope next to Maggie Salwei as both watch for plovers on a nesting area on ...
Captive-reared piping plovers are making history as they guard two separate nests with eggs in Waukegan and Chicago. Three plover eggs were documented Saturday in Waukegan, and 30 miles down the Lake ...
It's almost that time of year again when birders flock to Montrose Beach. The peak of migration season is a couple weeks away. But one popular bird has already made an appearance — as two piping ...
Piping plover birds are protected under the federal Endangered Species Act and the Kansas Nongame and Endangered Species ...
NOTHING CAN stop Hampton Beach’s summer fireworks — except the piping plover, a small rare bird that nests in the beach’s sandy dunes. For the third time in four years, the Hampton Beach Village ...
Eden Essex and her partner, Daniel Eastman, have long dedicated Saturday evenings throughout the summer to their “date night with the plovers.” As the birds’ monitors, they regularly don bright orange ...
Two Snowy Plovers, a federally threatened species, have hatched at the SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Center after their eggs were rescued from a washed-out nest at Marina State Beach. Point Blue ...
A western snowy plover looks around at Limantour Beach in Point Reyes on May 15, 2025. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On an overcast morning in mid-April, biologist Maddy Schwarz parked her truck on a ...
Three mountain plover eggs in a typical ground nest in a Kimball County field. Farmers steer their tractors around the fragile nests scratched into the dirt. Lacey Clarke scans a Kimball County field ...