Volunteers assume that they were eaten by predators, but this is difficult if not impossible to prove without bodies.

Waukegan’s piping plover scene became a lot more crowded this week. Three chicks were released along the Waukegan shoreline Tuesday, the same day three resident piping plovers were named and banded ...

Long classified a federally threatened species, the small, stocky shorebirds are bouncing back, with more nesting on Bay State beaches this year than ever before, according to a Mass Audubon report.

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Lyra Brennan stood on a near-empty beach in Barnstable, scanning the sand for adult piping plovers and their newborn chicks. A plover chick is about the size of a cotton ball, and the same color as ...

EMPIRE, MI – Endangered Great Lakes piping plovers will probably die this year in Michigan because of hiring struggles and spending limits at national parks, conservation experts warn. A retired ...

I have been away working as a naturalist guide in Southeast Alaska for the past couple of weeks, far away from Maine beaches.

Brooklynite Marisa Wohl worked in finance and is used to telling people what they don't want to hear. That trait helps her as a NYC Plover Project volunteer, keeping New York beachgoers away from ...

This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. July is nearly through, and so is the piping plover’s nesting ...

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The plovers were gone from their summertime home at Montrose Beach as of Sunday, but they were still in the Chicago area.

Piping plovers are alive and well in Massachusetts. Long classified a federally threatened species, the small, stocky shorebirds are bouncing back, with more nesting on Bay State beaches this year ...