In the words of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the piping plover is "an indicator of the health of the fragile beach ...

Piping Plover females are the first to leave the Great Lakes and head south, leaving dad to finish raising the chicks.

Piping plovers have made a remarkable recovery in Massachusetts. But the tiny, threatened shorebird is declining in other ...

Officials discovered a piping plover nestled on a fireworks launchpoint before the show was about to begin, Montauk officials ...

The 2025 census results for an endangered bird here in Maine has officials at the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife ...

This year, the names represent iconic Chicago landmarks woven into the city’s fabric and known to all visitors of our beloved ...

By Jack Motz and Michelle Trauring The Montauk Chamber of Commerce delayed — and ultimately canceled — its annual “Stars Over ...

The three new piping plover chicks born at Montrose Beach have been named in true Chicago fashion: Bean, El and Ferris. Bean is named after the Cloud Gate sculpture, colloquially called “The Bean,” in ...

A 16-year-old piping plover, known as Gabby, has hatched two more chicks at Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore, bringing her lifetime total to 37. Gabby, officially designated "Of,gb:X,Y," is the ...

The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife urges beachgoers to "share the shore" during the busy Fourth of July ...

Piping plovers are small migratory shorebirds with populations in the Great Lakes, Northern Great Plains and Atlantic Coast. Massachusetts recorded a record-breaking 1,198 breeding pairs in 2024, ...