This common and large plover with long wings and tail is widespread across the United States and into Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America. It is the only plover in its range ...

It's nesting season for the Western Snowy Plover along the Oregon Coast. The small shoebird, about the size of a sparrow, is listed under the US Endangered Species Act as threatened. Human ...

The number of Western snowy plovers in Oregon increased slightly last year, continuing what’s been a major success story for the threatened shorebird as officials begin roping off beach for ...

“Once you start watching them, you can’t help but care.” An adult piping plover scurries around Montrose Beach in July 2024. Piping plovers are small, sand-colored shorebirds that nest on ...

"Oh there's a chick, I can see a chick," he says. He spots one, then two, newly hatched hooded plover chicks, darting about the sand on Port Fairy's East Beach in south-west Victoria.

LANSING, MI – Michigan wildlife officials are picking up the tab for critical efforts in Great Lakes piping plover conservation work. For years, officials with the state Department of Natural ...