It's almost that time of year again when birders flock to Montrose Beach. The peak of migration season is a couple weeks away ...

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

DESCRIPTION: The piping plover is a small shorebird about seven inches long with a wingspan of about 15 inches. Breeding birds have a sandy-colored back, white underparts and rump, a black upper tail, ...

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

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 ...

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.

Conservation programs enacted after listing have helped the plover, but recovery goals still have not been met. In 2006, the piping plover made the Audubon Society's “top 10 most endangered species” ...

(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 ...

As the birds’ monitors, they regularly don bright orange shirts and settle in at Montrose Beach to watch over Chicago’s piping plovers. “We love watching the birds, but we also love sharing ...

The first piping plover of the season was spotted on Higgins Beach in Scarborough last week and the endangered bird species, which can typically be found on Maine’s beaches from April through ...

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 ...