So far this season, there is no plover nest at Montrose Beach — just one plover looking for love. "Pippin was the 2024 ...

CRITICAL HABITAT: 165,211 acres of wintering habitat designated in 2001; 183,422 acres and 1,207.5 river miles in Minnesota, North Dakota ... The population of the piping plover first plummeted in the ...

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

Francie Cuthbert, a conservation biology professor from the University of Minnesota, has been studying Great Lakes piping plovers for decades. She echoed statements that the threats are “real.” ...

Francie Cuthbert, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota and piping plover captive rearing program director at the University of Michigan biological research facility in Pellston ...

Piping plover parents have their work cut out for them with these precocious chicks. Ready to roam the beach just hours after hatching, hungry chicks will leave the nest in search of their first meal.

Beach season in New England may still be several months away. But for our most steadfast beachgoers, the piping plover, now's the perfect time to hit the coast. Each year, the small, sandy-colored ...

Jun 25, 2023 Jun 25, 2023 Updated Jul 30, 2024 Efforts to protect New Hampshire’s “iconic” piping plovers are paying dividends again this summer — in the form of cute little fuzzballs.

Daniel Eastman looking out for piping plovers at Montrose Beach during a monitoring shift in July 2024. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times file Share Eden Essex and her partner, Daniel Eastman ...