Days before it was to be given a name, one of the four piping plover chicks at Montrose Beach was presumed dead Wednesday. Three chicks were confirmed at the nest of piping plovers Imani and Sea ...

We are introducing you to a wildlife ecologist and efforts to save a beloved bird species in northern Michigan.Dr. Ra ...

Thanks to their sand-colored plumage and stop-and-go dashes across dunes, piping plovers are usually identified by their bell-like whistles before they're seen. But these birds' camouflage techniques ...

CRITICAL HABITAT: 165,211 acres of wintering habitat designated in 2001; 183,422 acres and 1,207.5 river miles in Minnesota, North Dakota ... The population of the piping plover first plummeted in the ...

and engages in conservation research regarding vulnerable beach-nesting birds. Back in 1986, there were fewer than 200 breeding pairs of piping plovers in the state. While piping plovers remain a ...

An endangered piping plover chick ... that people respect the beach closures," Sullivan said, "Because disturbance is definitely detrimental (to the piping plovers)." Sullivan and his colleagues ...