Maine’s piping plovers are having their best year on record according to the latest census of the endangered shore birds.

In the words of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the piping plover is "an indicator of the health of the fragile beach ...

Piping plovers have made a remarkable recovery in Massachusetts. But the tiny, threatened shorebird is declining in other ...

Piping Plover females are the first to leave the Great Lakes and head south, leaving dad to finish raising the chicks.

Officials discovered a piping plover nestled on a fireworks launchpoint before the show was about to begin, Montauk officials said.

The 2025 census results for an endangered bird here in Maine has officials at the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife ...

The Great Lakes piping plover recovery effort has been ongoing since the mid-1980s when the population got as low as a dozen ...

A 16-year-old piping plover, known as Gabby, has hatched two more chicks at Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore, bringing her lifetime total to 37. Gabby, officially designated "Of,gb:X,Y," is the ...

The piping plovers have, in effect, created a protected part of the beaches in Chicago and Waukegan that benefits many other animals and plants, according to Itani, Lueck and Semel.

Last year, 125 pairs of the endangered shorebirds nested here, and 2022 looks like it will yield another record high, according to Maine Audubon.

Up to 800 piping plover pairs once nested annually throughout the Great Lakes region, but by the 1980s that number had dwindled to about a dozen pairs, resulting in the species being placed on the … ...