Piping plover parents have their work cut out for them with these precocious chicks. Ready to roam the beach just hours after ...

Its bizarre beak makes more sense upside down ... singing or a towhee calling and who hurries out to see a golden plover that’s been reported in the neighborhood, just because it’s a beautiful ...

Environmentalists work to protect the endangered snowy plovers as they return to Monterey Bay beaches for nesting season.

Beach season in New England may still be several months away. But for our most steadfast beachgoers, the piping plover, now's the perfect time to hit the coast. Each year, the small, sandy-colored ...

(WOOD) — One of the nation’s leading experts on a critically endangered bird says potential federal spending cuts could spell doom for the Great Lakes piping plover. Francie Cuthbert ...

Now that it had an audience, the killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) began to lie through its beak. It contorted its wings in what ... which then launches skyward to escape. A plover may fake an injury ...

LANSING, MI – Michigan wildlife officials are picking up the tab for critical efforts in Great Lakes piping plover conservation work. For years, officials with the state Department of Natural ...

Silver Lake State Park will get two. Many experts have sounded the alarm on how funding cuts could potentially doom the Great Lakes piping plover, including a former deputy superintendent at ...