Days before it was to be given a name, one of the four piping plover chicks at Montrose Beach was presumed dead Wednesday. Three chicks were confirmed at the nest of piping plovers Imani and Sea ...
An endangered piping plover chick was banded earlier this year in Milton, Delaware, and now he's been spotted in Jacksonville, Florida, after making his first trip south for the winter.
Thanks to their sand-colored plumage and stop-and-go dashes across dunes, piping plovers are usually identified by their bell-like whistles before they're seen. But these birds' camouflage techniques ...
DESCRIPTION: The piping plover is a small shorebird about seven inches long with a wingspan of about 15 inches. Breeding birds have a sandy-colored back, white underparts and rump, a black upper tail, ...
The piping plover — a shorebird unique to the eastern U.S. coast — relies entirely on beaches along the Atlantic Ocean and Great Lakes for every aspect of its daily needs. These same beaches where ...
Jun 25, 2023 Jun 25, 2023 Updated Jul 30, 2024 Efforts to protect New Hampshire’s “iconic” piping plovers are paying dividends again this summer — in the form of cute little fuzzballs.