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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.
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 ...
She’s been monitoring migrating birds since 2015 and remembers seeing the first piping plover in 2016 that was first leg banded in Michigan. He was named Jerry and returned to Erie each year ...
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.
Monty (June 2017 – May 13, 2022) [1] and Rose were a pair of piping plovers, who gained local fame in 2019 [2] for being the first pair to successfully breed in Chicago in decades. [3] They belonged to the critically endangered Great Lakes population of piping plovers, which has approximately 70 breeding pairs in total. [ 4 ]
The American robin is the state bird of Wisconsin. This list of birds of Wisconsin includes species documented in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and accepted by the Records Committee of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology (WSORC). As of July 2022 there were 441 species and a species pair included in the official list. Of them, 96 are classed as accidental, 34 are classed as casual, 53 are ...
The killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a large plover found in the Americas.It gets its name from its shrill, two-syllable call, which is often heard. It was described and given its current scientific name in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae.
Piping plover (Charadrius melodus), except Great Lakes watershed; Northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) Skipper, Dakota (Hesperia dacotae) Extirpated federally endangered animal species: Gray wolf, extirpated from Iowa, but occasionally visits from Minnesota or Wisconsin. Locally extinguished animals are: