Piping plover parents have their work cut out for them with these precocious chicks. Ready to roam the beach just hours after ...

Piping plovers return to Massachusetts' beaches to nest in early spring. Mass Audubon Coastal Waterbird Program Director Lyra ...

Lovebirds’ story: As piping plover monitors, Eden Essex and her partner, Daniel Eastman, regularly don bright orange shirts ...

In the fall, after the plovers migrate to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the United States, monitors help prepare the ...

But these birds' camouflage techniques mean they're vulnerable to off ... Since its Endangered Species Act protection more than 20 years ago, piping plover numbers have increased — through intensive ...

For years, officials with the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) hired about five seasonal piping plover monitors to ...

One of the nation’s leading experts on a critically endangered bird says potential federal spending cuts could spell doom for ...

Fortunately, since the species was protected under the Endangered Species Act, nest-site destruction and harassment has been reduced; the bird's once-decimated population has increased by more than 50 ...

However, it is habitat loss, not predators, that has driven the bird toward extinction. “One of the main reasons we have such high human-plover conflict is because the plovers nest directly on ...

But it also highlights the growing long-term threat of climate change-fuelled storms and rising seas on beach-nesting birds, notably the endangered hooded plover. Loading... The bird was already ...