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  2. Piping plover - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Hampton Beach piping plovers: Why this endangered species ...

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    Piping plovers are a species of small shore birds able to camouflage themselves in the sand. They weigh 1.5 to 2.25 ounces with a height of just up to 7 inches.

  4. Birders have guarded optimism regarding the plight of piping ...

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    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 ...

  5. Monty and Rose - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  6. A visiting bird from Chicago is making waves in Wilmington ...

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    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 ...

  7. Plover - Wikipedia

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    Plovers (/ ˈ p l ʌ v ər / PLUV-ər, [1] also US: / ˈ p l oʊ v ər / PLOH-vər) [2] are members of a widely distributed group of wading birds of family Charadriidae. The term "plover" applies to all the members of the family, [ 1 ] though only about half of them include it in their name.

  8. Charadrius - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. A Hilton Head Island relic washed up thousands of miles ... - AOL

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    Hilton Head typically has the largest population of piping plovers in the state, Chaplin said. But a five-year study comparing varying degrees of disturbed sites in Georgia and South Carolina ...