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The piping plover (Charadrius melodus) is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches in North America. The adult has yellow-orange-red legs, a black band across the forehead from eye to eye, and a black stripe running along the breast line.
A piping plover shows off its wings at Hampton Beach State Park on June 19, 2023. These birds have discovered Hampton Beach, I guess since COVID-19, when there were fewer humans to contend with.
Charadrius is a genus of plovers, a group of wading birds.The genus name Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate.They are found throughout the world.
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Bird watchers are cautiously optimistic about seeing endangered piping plovers again this spring in Presque Isle State Park. The small migratory shore birds are starting to rediscover the Gull ...
The piping plovers have their own Facebook page, and Waukegan designated the Great Lakes piping plover the official city bird in May − in large part to the success of plovers like Blaze in ...
In honor of the pair, November 18 was declared piping plover day in Illinois by state governor J.B. Pritzker. [17]A 2-part documentary about the pair, titled Monty and Rose and Monty and Rose 2: The World of Monty and Rose respectively, was produced and released by local filmmaker Bob Dolgan, originally for piping plover day.
A piping plover chick tests its developing wings into a southerly sea breeze as a plover family worked the sand feeding at Dowses Beach in Osterville, in 2021. A challenging balancing act It hasn ...