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If you’ve ever walked the beach and watched a tiny bird pulling something from the sand, it was likely a piping plover. These speedy shorebirds are known for their agile movements along coastlines and ...

BROWN COUNTY, Wis. (WLUK) -- Efforts continue to help protect an endangered bird, while also balancing recreational opportunities for people in the area. The piping plover is a tiny shorebird that has ...

BROWN COUNTY, Wis. (WLUK) -- With the Fourth of July quickly approaching, many are getting ready to celebrate. At a popular place in the waters of Green Bay, an endangered bird called the piping ...

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 ...

FILE - A piping plover runs across the beach in Phippsburg, Maine, in June 2006. The threatened shorebird is being seen in record numbers on Maine beaches during summer 2022. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — While conservationists have made some notable strides to save the Great Lakes piping plover, a rising threat exacerbates the challenges for the critically endangered bird.

You’d walk right by a piping plover if it stayed perfectly still. The birds are tiny, perhaps the size of a sparrow, and colored to blend in with the sand and tidal mud flats they call home. Protect ...

The family teases me every year when I notice a piping plover at our beach at Cape Cod and want everyone to look. They’ve seen the bird before, last year and the year before, one or maybe two at a ...

CHICAGO -- The Chicago birding community is hopeful another generation of piping plovers will hatch on Montrose Beach after a new egg was found. Imani and Searocket have paired up and produced the egg ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- An endangered bird chick was killed by a hawk at a Chicago beach, a local bird monitoring group announced. Chicago Piping Plovers said a piping plover named "Ferris" died just six ...

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