Conservation efforts to protect piping plovers on the state's beaches has led to a record year for nesting pairs.

Piping plovers have been in decline for a while but are miraculously thriving in Massachusetts. WBUR’s Barbara Moran reports.

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

Thanks to the Island Nature Trust, dog owners can borrow a leash for their dogs at several public beaches on Prince Edward ...

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

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

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 19, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

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

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

Will Seabrook Beach enact a curfew to combat fireworks, noise, drinking and sex? Residents and officials say visitors are ...

Some baby birds just hatched at Montrose Beach, and their names are about as Chicago as it gets. Block Club Chicago reporter ...