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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.
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.
Since 2017, 37 piping plovers can be traced back to Presque Isle. Some of the eggs from Presque Isle ended up at a captive rearing facility because something happened to the adults.
Piping plovers are designated as a state and federal threatened species, according to the Massachusetts state website. There are four other species of threatened or endangered shorebirds in ...
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 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 sparsely vegetated, sand-cobblestone beaches at Whitefish are ideal breeding grounds for the piping plover. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated approximately 2.5 kilometres (8,200 ft) of Whitefish Point shoreline as critical habitat for the bird, giving it protection under the Federal Endangered Species Act at Whitefish Point. [1]
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 ...