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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.
However, it once appeared that the taxonomy of “Charadrius” was erroneous, as for example the Kentish plover is more closely related to lapwings than it is to, say, the greater ringed plover. Hence, either all members of Charadriidae, excluding Pluvialis are grouped in a single genus, Charadrius , or the genus is reduced to the Common ...
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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 ...
This is the second year that the highly endangered Great Lakes piping plover has traveled nearly 1,000 miles to ride out winter along the N.C. coast. A visiting bird from Chicago is making waves ...
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.
The Chicago Park District has voted to name a section of the Montrose Beach Dunes Natural Area after Monty and Rose, a beloved pair of piping plovers whose unlikely love story captured the hearts ...
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.