This post by peanut.chu.adventures shows three little piping plover chicks scrambling for a good spot under their mother’s wings. The resulting “eight-legged” bird may look like something ...

Sometimes, though, the price for lying is death. In 2008, on a beach in Spain, Gómez-Serrano saw a Kentish plover enacting an in-motion broken-wing display for a small predator hidden in the ...

A plover on the plains is like a canary in a coal mine. Despite its name, the Mountain Plover prefers the dryer and open prairie of eastern Colorado. Audubon himself misnamed it, and you may never ...

“They wouldn’t be here if this wasn’t a good place to nest.” Piping plover chick Nagamo stretches its wings while it scurries around Montrose Beach in August 2024.