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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.
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 ...
The killdeer is a large plover, with adults ranging in length from 20 to 28 cm (7.9 to 11.0 in), having a wingspan between 59 and 63 cm (23 and 25 in), and usually being between 72 and 121 g (2.5 and 4.3 oz) in weight. [3]
Several considerations involving the predator have been shown to be important, including the distance of the predator from the nest. Intensity of display has been shown to decrease as the distance of the predator from the nest increases, perhaps representing the balancing of risk to the displaying parent and to the vulnerable young. [26]
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 ...
A piping plover shows off its wings at Hampton Beach State Park on June 19, 2023. These birds have discovered Hampton Beach, I guess since COVID-19, when there were fewer humans to contend with.
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 ...
They hunt by sight, rather than by feel as do longer-billed waders like snipe. Species of the genera Aegialites (or Aegialitis ), Thinornis , and Elseyornis are now subsumed within Charadrius . The former genus name Thinornis combined the Ancient Greek this meaning "beach" or "sand" with ornis meaning "bird".