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If you’ve ever walked the beach and watched a tiny bird pulling something from the sand, it was likely a piping plover. These speedy shorebirds are known for their agile movements along coastlines and ...

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An endangered-species bird called the piping plover is nesting at Webster State Park near Stockton in Rooks County in north-central Kansas, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks said May 23 on ...

Indiana has a rich biodiversity with thousands of species in unique habitats, but growth and development have changed some of those fragile ecosystems and threaten the wildlife they support. IndyStar ...

Lyra Brennan stood on a near-empty beach in Barnstable, scanning the sand for adult piping plovers and their newborn chicks. A plover chick is about the size of a cotton ball, and the same color as ...

FILE - A piping plover runs across the beach in Phippsburg, Maine, in June 2006. The threatened shorebird is being seen in record numbers on Maine beaches during summer 2022. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, ...

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 ...

Birders at the Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary got a rare treat last week: the appearance of a Great Lakes Piping Plover (PIPL), a threatened bird not often seen on the Texas coast. Her distinct leg ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- An endangered bird chick was killed by a hawk at a Chicago beach, a local bird monitoring group announced. Chicago Piping Plovers said a piping plover named "Ferris" died just six ...

LEELANAU COUNTY, MI -- Nature lovers will toast to their favorite shorebird, and the efforts to keep them safe on Lake Michigan beaches, at a Piping Plover fundraiser. The Pour for the Plovers ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There is a new generation of Great Lakes Piping Plovers at Montrose Beach. Imani and Searocket have hatched four chicks within 36 hours at their nest on the Montrose Beach Dunes. The ...