CUMBERLAND ISLAND, GA – The oldest known Great Lakes piping plover was recently spotted at her favorite wintering grounds on ...

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 ...

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

Overall, 18 species had populations that were either rising — including the giant sea bass, green sea turtle, and southern ...

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 ...

The species is vulnerable to predation, flooding and human activity because the birds build their nests on exposed sandy beaches. "It's significant because we monitor the piping plovers' reproductive ...