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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. 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 ...

  6. Monty and Rose - Wikipedia

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    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.

  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. Recent findings by Mass Audubon show more plovers. What Coleman and her team are observing is borne out in recent findings by the Massachusetts Audubon Society that more piping plovers nested last ...

  9. 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.