Duxbury Beach Reservation caters to two kinds of visitors: the winged and wingless. There are the human visitors who are itching to drive onto the beach with oversand permits and soak in the summer ...

Two Snowy Plovers, a federally threatened species, have hatched at the SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Center after their eggs were rescued from a washed-out nest at Marina State Beach. Point Blue ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's nesting season in Chicago, and an exciting discovery was made on the Montrose Beach Dunes on Sunday. The parents, Imani and Sea Rocket, laid their first egg as part of a four-egg ...

The powerful May 23 storm that swept across the Cape destroyed most piping plover nests at Sandy Neck Beach Park in Barnstable. “We lost about three-quarters of our nests to that nor’easter,” said ...

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 nesting ...

On a humid July afternoon, two tiny Great Lakes piping plovers step cautiously from a breadbox-sized crate onto the sun-warmed sands of a quiet beach. Just a few feet away, a team of researchers, ...

The release this week of four piping plover fledglings reared in captivity at a secluded beach area on Lake Michigan raises the possibility of two more nesting sites for the federally endangered bird ...

Three mountain plover eggs in a typical ground nest in a Kimball County field. Farmers steer their tractors around the fragile nests scratched into the dirt. Lacey Clarke scans a Kimball County field ...

The Western Snowy Plover, a threatened shorebird species, has begun its breeding season on Monterey Bay beaches. Beachgoers are urged to be cautious as the plovers nest on the ground and are easily ...

The repeated vandalism of fencing installed to protect beach-nesting ringed plovers has sparked concern from conservationists and the police. Ropes have been cut, fence posts pulled from the ground ...

Montrose Beach became a nesting site for piping plovers in 2019. In 2019, Tamima Itani noticed piping plovers building a nest along a volleyball court at Montrose Beach – the first plovers to nest in ...