Piping plovers return to Massachusetts' beaches to nest in early spring. Mass Audubon Coastal Waterbird Program Director Lyra ...

Piping plover chicks are precocial ... It's not uncommon to see traveling willets, semipalmated plovers, ruddy turnstones, black-bellied plovers, sanderlings, and sandpipers on the shores of ...

Since its Endangered Species Act protection more than 20 years ago, piping plover numbers have increased — through intensive nest and predator-management programs, as well as the designation of ...

For years, officials with the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) hired about five seasonal piping plover monitors to ...

In the fall, after the plovers migrate to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the United States, monitors help prepare the ...