If you’ve ever walked the beach and watched a tiny bird pulling something from the sand, it was likely a piping plover. These ...

Two male piping plovers, Pippin and Uncle Larry, were spotted Friday at Montrose Beach, according to Chicago Piping Plovers, ...

The wait is on to see whether at least one, or possibly two, pairs of plovers will nest at Montrose Beach this year.

Two banded piping plovers were spotted Friday morning by Mark Kolasa, the Montrose Beach Dunes volunteer community steward, ...

Identified by bird watchers as Pippin and Uncle Larry, they're the first plovers to land at the beach this year.

As far as I’m concerned, 2024 was the year of Plover 274. She is a piping plover, a small shorebird species that is both ...

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 ... than 20 ...

EMPIRE, MI – Endangered Great Lakes piping ... plover habitat in the upper Great Lakes. But experts worry recent Trump administration spending cuts may leave gaps in protections for the birds ...

For years, officials with the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) hired about five seasonal piping plover monitors to work at state parks where the federally endangered shorebirds annually ...

Two male piping plovers were spotted Friday at Montrose Beach, according to Chicago Piping Plovers, an organization dedicated ...