As far as I’m concerned, 2024 was the year of Plover 274. She is a piping plover, a small shorebird species that is both ...

My children's elementary school celebrated Earth Day with a school garden cleanup. When I arrived to volunteer, I found the first graders peeping with excitement like baby chicks.

Piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) are tiny, migratory shore birds native to North America ... to camouflage their gray to cream-colored eggs with black spots. Males and females both protect ...

LB: "These birds face an unbelievable amount of risks on the beach. "Every predator, from coyotes to crows to raptors, pose a serious threat to piping plover adults, chicks and eggs. We all love ...

In particular, ravens, voracious native predators of plover eggs, have exploded in numbers ... than 25 organizations have worked to boost the birds’ numbers, allowing the American population ...

As spring arrives, the return of the killdeer and other seasonal wildlife makes the morning commute a bittersweet journey filled with beauty, distraction and the irresistible pull of nature.

Here's how to help if you see beach-nesting birds on the shore. Also here's tools to watch and track them if you're not at ...

Two banded piping plovers were spotted Friday morning by Mark Kolasa, the Montrose Beach Dunes volunteer community steward, ...

A plover may fake an injury while running. While watching the bird, Francis recalls ... lying down to simulate incubating their eggs—something that could trick a predator into looking for the nest ...

Imani, the son of beloved couple Monty and Rose, is back home, according to Chicago Piping Plovers, a volunteer organization ...

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 ...