OREGON COAST Ore. (KPTV) - Plover nesting season begins on March 15, and visitors can help the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and Siuslaw National Forest with recovery efforts by following ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get your binoculars! Piping plover season is back at Montrose Beach. Two banded piping plovers were spotted Friday morning by Mark Kolasa, the Montrose Beach Dunes volunteer community steward, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Plover nesting season has arrived on the Oregon Coast and officials are reminding beachgoers to be mindful in their habitat. From March 15 through Sept. 15, the Oregon Parks ...

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 ...

TRAVERSE CITY, MI – Great Lakes piping plovers are getting busy replenishing the species’ numbers. On June 13, conservation officials confirmed this year is a record-breaking nesting season for the ...

Conservation experts report more than a dozen captive-reared Great Lakes piping plovers released in 2025 have been spotted along southern coastlines from North Carolina to Texas.

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An endangered-species bird called the piping plover is nesting at Webster State Park near Stockton in Rooks County in north-central Kansas, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks said May 23 on ...

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 ...