Piping plovers, once hunted for food and hat feathers, rebounded because of regulation but have declined again with habitat loss.

Officials at P.E.I. National Park are concerned about the eggs in a piping plover nest after a tern took over the nest of one of the endangered birds. Piping plovers are closely watched on the Island.

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. Jacksonville ...

Piping plovers are an endangered species on the Delaware beaches. Volunteers learn how to stop people from going onto the ...

Removal of metal leg bands began after study found they caused injuries Federal scientists plan to head out this spring to remove bands that are injuring some endangered piping plovers, even causing ...

The population of endangered piping plovers in Maine has reached a record high this summer. Laura Minich Zitske, director of Maine Audubon’s piping plover and least tern project, said the 174 pairs of ...

An endangered piping plover, nestled on the launch point of Montauk’s annual Fourth of July fireworks show, forced officials to postpone the event twice over the holiday weekend. A new date for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Memorial Day fireworks on Hampton Beach were canceled due to the piping plovers nesting on the beach. While this disrupts the ...

A small shorebird called the piping plover was added to the endangered species list in 1986, when there were only 17 pairs in the entire Great Lakes region, all of them in Michigan. But the piping ...

Blaze, a female piping plover, spent the winter in North Carolina. Pepper, a male piping plover, wintered 775 miles away in Florida. But, in a migration miracle, the federally endangered, ...

Indiana has a rich biodiversity with thousands of species in unique habitats, but growth and development have changed some of those fragile ecosystems and threaten the wildlife they support. IndyStar ...

Eden Essex and her partner, Daniel Eastman, have long dedicated Saturday evenings throughout the summer to their “date night with the plovers.” As the birds’ monitors, they regularly don bright orange ...