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 ...

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

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” ...

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