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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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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The family teases me every year when I notice a piping plover at our beach at Cape Cod and want everyone to look. They’ve seen the bird before, last year and the year before, one or maybe two at a ...

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 ...

Piping plovers are alive and well in Massachusetts. Long classified a federally threatened species, the small, stocky shorebirds are bouncing back, with more nesting on Bay State beaches this year ...