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Lyra Brennan stood on a near-empty beach in Barnstable, scanning the sand for adult piping plovers and their newborn chicks. A plover chick is about the size of a cotton ball, and the same color as ...

Their story was filled with drama, anchored by hope and, depending on who you asked, one ultimately about love. But it was never going to last forever. Monty, one half of Chicago’s endangered Great ...

FILE - A piping plover runs across the beach in Phippsburg, Maine, in June 2006. The threatened shorebird is being seen in record numbers on Maine beaches during summer 2022. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's Saturday morning newsletter, The Weekender. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. Beach season in New England may still be ...

SLEEPING BEAR DUNES, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- We are introducing you to a wildlife ecologist and efforts to save a beloved bird species in northern Michigan. Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant is an ecologist and also ...

The Memorial Day fireworks on Hampton Beach were canceled due to the piping plovers nesting on the beach. While this disrupts the flow of holiday fun, I thought it would be good for us to know why ...

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 ...

While challenges lie ahead for three piping plover chicks hatched last week along Lake Michigan in Waukegan, the kids are doing all right, dedicated observers say. That's a good sign for the comeback ...

PELLSTON, MI – Scientists and students at the University of Michigan Biological Station will host a public open house event when visitors can learn about ongoing scientific studies there, including a ...

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