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 ...

The American zoologist, George Ord, Jr., first described the Piping Plover in 1824. It was classified as part of the ...

This is the Piping Plover, a small but mighty shorebird that has captured the attention of conservationists and bird ...

DESCRIPTION: The piping plover is a small shorebird about seven inches long with a wingspan of about 15 inches. Breeding birds have a sandy-colored back, white underparts and rump, a black upper tail, ...

The piping plover may have a new predator to worry about – the common grackle, which has been photographed for the first time eating eggs in a nest of the endangered migratory bird. “This behavior ...

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.

Piping plovers are continuing their comeback story. Massachusetts beaches for the second straight year saw more nesting piping plovers than at any time in the last four decades, according to Mass ...

The Nature Conservancy of Canada partners with Birds Canada in an effort to protect sensitive habitats that are critical for species, such as the piping plover. In New Brunswick, those sites ...

An endangered piping plover chick was banded earlier this year in Milton, Delaware, and now he's been spotted in Jacksonville, Florida, after making his first trip south for the winter.

“It looked like we were going to lose the species all together." The piping plovers' numbers plummeted to all-time lows due mostly to human interaction on the beaches at Sleeping Bear. "They ...

Piping plovers are continuing their comeback story. Massachusetts beaches for the second straight year saw more nesting piping plovers than at any time in the last four decades, according to Mass ...