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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 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 ...
A piping plover shows off its wings at Hampton Beach State Park on June 19, 2023. ... The conservation of these birds throughout the United States includes roping off nesting areas and limiting ...
The piping plover is designated federally threatened and state endangered in Maine. Fifty to 75% of the Maine piping plover population nests at sites on or near the refuge, including Crescent Surf Beach, Goosefare Brook, and Marshall Point at Goose Rocks. New England cottontails (Sylvilagus transitionalis) are found in Maine.
The Great Lakes population of piping plover are isolated and extremely vulnerable to extirpation from the Great Lakes region. [14] On August 30, 2012, the USFWS added 19.85 acres (8.03 ha) acres and more than 1,000 feet (300 m) of Lake Superior shoreline as critical piping plover habitat to Whitefish Point Unit of the Seney National Wildlife ...
One of the federally endangered piping plover chicks that’s been roaming a North Side beach in recent weeks has ties to a prominent local family. When the chick, who was rescued in New York ...
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.
The eggs were taken between the evening of July 15 and the morning of July 16.