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 ...

On a bright, blustery morning in Scarborough, a three-member team is out surveying nesting sites for piping plovers and least terns, two endangered shorebirds in Maine. The secluded beach the survey ...

The powerful May 23 storm that swept across the Cape destroyed most piping plover nests at Sandy Neck Beach Park in Barnstable. “We lost about three-quarters of our nests to that nor’easter,” said ...

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Bird watchers are cautiously optimistic about seeing endangered piping plovers again this spring in Presque Isle State Park. The small migratory shore birds are starting to rediscover the Gull Point ...

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 ...

Piping plovers are alive and well in Massachusetts. Long classified a federally threatened species, the small, stocky shorebirds are bouncing back, with more nesting on Bay State beaches this year ...

It’s a drizzly morning on the Graveyard Spit near Tokeland. There’s a misty haze, where the sea blends into the low clouds. Looking for birds slightly bigger than cotton balls on a beach that feels ...

For the first time in nearly 70 years, western snowy plovers are nesting on Los Angeles County beaches. The first nest was found on April 18 on Santa Monica State Beach, followed by discovery of a ...