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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.
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]
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 ...
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".
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.
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 killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a large plover found in the Americas.It gets its name from its shrill, two-syllable call, which is often heard. It was described and given its current scientific name in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae.