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 ...
Despite its resilient nature, the Piping Plover is facing a series of challenges that threaten its very existence. So, here ...
Typically, piping plovers begin arriving and nesting in Delaware in March and migrate south by September. They've mostly nested at Cape Henlopen State Park historically, but since 2016, they've been ...
Sullivan and his colleagues are in year four of a five-year study looking at piping plover habitat use in Delaware. Banding and tracking the birds will help them determine how loyal plovers are to ...
Though a Great Lakes piping plover is small enough to rest in the ... Zoo to support our efforts to save these animals and the habitat they need to exist and thrive.” In just a few months ...
Piping plovers are continuing their comeback story. Massachusetts beaches for the second straight year saw more nesting piping plovers than at any time in the last four decades, according to Mass ...
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. Jacksonville ...
Piping plover chicks like these have more success nesting on natural sandbars than on human-built habitat.(D. Borden) (CN) — Endangered California shorebirds who took advantage of pandemic beach ...