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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

(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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Calling all bird lovers: Chicago’s piping plovers are in need of some volunteer monitors. In a recent social media post, the organization Chicago Piping Plovers put a call-out ...

Two Piping Plovers were spotted at Montrose Beach Friday afternoon. Chicago Piping Plovers confirmed one of the birds is Pippin, while the birding community believes the other is Uncle Larry out of ...

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 ...