A solitary piping plover surveys the shorefront. Zipping across the sand and scurrying among sun-baked seaweed are some of the littlest and rarest seasonal visitors to New Hampshire’s beaches. In ...
The BDN outdoors section brings readers into the woods, waters and wild places of Maine. It features stories on hunting, fishing, wildlife, conservation and recreation, told by people who live these ...
SUAMICO - Ten years have done nothing to dull Tom Prestby's memory of a momentous piping plover event on Cat Island in Green Bay. In fact it's as clear as the image of the live bird that recently ...
A 16-year-old piping plover, known as Gabby, has hatched two more chicks at Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore, bringing her lifetime total to 37. Gabby, officially designated "Of,gb:X,Y," is the oldest ...
On a humid July afternoon, two tiny Great Lakes piping plovers step cautiously from a breadbox-sized crate onto the sun-warmed sands of a quiet beach. Just a few feet away, a team of researchers, ...