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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.
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 ...
At this location, the nest is enclosed in a wire cage, and a 50m x 50m area of the beach is temporarily closed. The birds, and their chicks, are closely monitored by volunteers 24/7 Articles this image appears in Piping Plover Creator Mdf. Support as nominator--Abdominator 04:00, 19 September 2008 (UTC) Support. A high quality image.
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.
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.
A piping plover chick tests its developing wings into a southerly sea breeze as a plover family worked the sand feeding at Dowses Beach in Osterville, in 2021. A challenging balancing act It hasn ...