Great Lakes piping plovers are small, federally endangered migratory shorebirds that nest and feed along the sand and gravel ...

Fewer than 2,500 Western snowy plovers remain along the entire West Coast of the United States, and Alameda is lucky enough to host several of the threatened birds. Sharol Nelson-Embry introduces the ...

BREEDING: The snowy plover nesting season extends from March to September ... and predation threaten the species. POPULATION TREND: In California, numbers increased from 976 breeding plovers in 2000 ...

An uproar began a few weeks ago in Barnegat Light, after work crews cleared 3 acres of beach and dune vegetation to the north ...

The Nature Conservancy of Canada partners with Birds Canada in an effort to protect sensitive habitats that are critical for species, such as the piping plover. In New Brunswick, those sites ...

Plovers:Endangered piping plover 'Yibbie' spotted as first of the ... The economics of doing it without this bird species would be catastrophic to the region." Numbers have increased in recent ...

A plover may fake an injury while running. While watching the bird, Francis recalls, one of his students asked: “What other species do that display?” Francis knew the behavior was commonly associated ...