A retired park administrator said some birds won't survive this year because scientists and supplies needed to protect them ...

For years, officials with the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) hired about five seasonal piping plover monitors to ...

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 ...

Chicago’s piping plovers are in need of some volunteer monitors. In a recent social media post, the organization Chicago ...

In the fall, after the plovers migrate to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the United States, monitors help prepare the ...

One of the nation’s leading experts on a critically endangered bird says potential federal spending cuts could spell doom for ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says it won’t let any federal funding issues slow its work to protect the Great ...

Conservation programs enacted after listing have helped the plover, but recovery goals still have not been met. In 2006, the piping plover made the Audubon Society's “top 10 most endangered species” ...

Just in time for the piping plovers to fledge this fall, New York and American Bird Conservancy have resolved a 2016 federal lawsuit over what to do with a community of feral cats at Jones Beach.

The first sighting was reported on Higgins Beach on March 11, continuing the trend of the endangered species' early arrival time in Scarborough.