Jul. 28—GLEN HAVEN — Four piping plovers rested on the beach near Glen Haven during a recent sunny afternoon, easy to miss as they sat among the pale rounded rocks. The adult among them was part of a ...

The Memorial Day fireworks on Hampton Beach were canceled due to the piping plovers nesting on the beach. While this disrupts the flow of holiday fun, I thought it would be good for us to know why ...

An adorable pair of the migratory birds known as piping plovers captured Chicago’s collective heart during the summer of 2019. Named Monty and Rose in honor of their nesting location — Montrose Beach ...

Captive-reared piping plovers are making history as they guard two separate nests with eggs in Waukegan and Chicago. Three plover eggs were documented Saturday in Waukegan, and 30 miles down the Lake ...

DELAWARE - The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) has announced increased nesting success in Delaware’s endangered piping plover population despite a dip in ...

An endangered piping plover nesting at Webster State Park in Kansas has caused the swim beach to close until late June. The piping plover, a small migratory shorebird, is protected under the ...

Maine’s piping plovers are having their best year on record according to the latest census of the endangered shore birds. Laura Minich Zitske, director of Maine's Audubon's piping plover and least ...

Eden Essex and her partner, Daniel Eastman, have long dedicated Saturday evenings throughout the summer to their “date night with the plovers.” As the birds’ monitors, they regularly don bright orange ...

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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Give those piping plovers their privacy. The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department says at least five pairs of the endangered bird are nesting along the sandy shores of Hampton ...

Piping plovers are small-bodied, short-distance migratory shorebirds. The Northern Great Plains population has been listed as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act since 1985.