Kouchibouguac National Park welcomed six pairs of piping plovers in 2024, which resulted in 16 fledglings — the highest annual production in seven years.

In January of 2023, researchers put GPS tags on eight Arctic-breeding gray plovers (Pluvialis squatarola). Their hope was to monitor the breeding migration of the birds to learn more about them.

Flying in the dark presents challenges to airborne cooperation, notes biologist Allison Pierce, who studies plover migration at University of Colorado Denver and was not involved in the new paper.

Kouchibouguac National Park welcomed six pairs of piping plovers in 2024, which resulted in 16 fledglings — the highest annual production in seven years. But it's only a small stride in the ...

and southward migration to wintering grounds begins in late July and extends through September. BREEDING: Males begin to establish breeding territories by early April, and eggs may be present from mid ...

The Nature Conservancy of Canada partners with Birds Canada in an effort to protect sensitive habitats that are critical for species, such as the piping plover. In New Brunswick, those sites ...

RANGE: The Pacific Coast snowy plover population ranges along the coasts of Washington, Oregon, California and Mexico, with the largest number of breeding birds occurring south of San Francisco Bay to ...

Some migrating shorebirds (plovers and sandpipers) are also vulnerable, the park says. Symptoms of infection in people can include shortness of breath, coughing, sore throat, runny nose and ...

Almost 4,500 birds made up of 97 species have been catalogued in an annual count by the Bermuda Audubon Society. Although the ...