Piping plovers return to Massachusetts' beaches to nest in early spring. Mass Audubon Coastal Waterbird Program Director Lyra ...

MIGRATION: Northward migration to breeding grounds occurs ... POPULATION TREND: The population of the piping plover first plummeted in the late 19th century due to hunting. With the Migratory Bird ...

After the first few weeks, they will begin their first migration to wintering grounds. The City of Waukegan designated the ...

Lovebirds’ story: As piping plover monitors, Eden Essex and her partner, Daniel Eastman, regularly don bright orange shirts ...

The piping plover was placed on the Federal Endangered ... "Things that are more dramatic and might impact things like migration or coastal habitat like here." Record high lake levels washed ...

Since its Endangered Species Act protection more than 20 years ago, piping plover numbers have increased — through intensive nest and predator-management programs, as well as the designation of ...

The Town of Hull, Mass Audubon’s Coastal Waterbird Program, and Hull’s Piping Plover Ambassadors are committed to monitoring ...

“Once you start watching them, you can’t help but care.” An adult piping plover scurries around Montrose Beach in July 2024. Piping plovers are small, sand-colored shorebirds that nest on ...

Scarborough is stepping up efforts to protect endangered piping plovers as the shorebirds return to nest on local beaches.

(WOOD) — One of the nation’s leading experts on a critically endangered bird says potential federal spending cuts could spell doom for the Great Lakes piping plover. Francie Cuthbert ...

The Piping Plover vanished from Chicago and Cook County in 1948. Nearly extinct from the region, the bird was declared federally endangered in the 1980s. In 2019, a pair of Piping Plovers began ...

LANSING, MI – Michigan wildlife officials are picking up the tab for critical efforts in Great Lakes piping plover conservation work. For years, officials with the state Department of Natural ...