If you’re planning a spring break trip to the Oregon coast, you’ll need to watch out for the tiny shorebirds nesting in the sand. Seasonal beach restrictions will be back in effect this month, as the ...

Life was never easy for the Pacific Coast’s western snowy plover. The small, gray-feathered, white-bellied shorebirds that spend summers nesting on the sandy beaches of Orange County are masters of ...

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and Siuslaw National Forest are reminding visitors that western snowy plover ...

A snowy plover injured as a result of the Huntington Beach oil spill is examined at the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center on Friday. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Life was ...

As Chicago moves into another phase of reopening, two federally endangered shorebirds are entering their own new phase of trying to save their species. On June 18, four piping plover chicks hatched on ...

Feral cats eliminated the shore plover population on Pitt Island, as well as the mainland of New Zealand, in the 1870s.

A group of volunteers patrols beaches where endangered Piping Plovers nest. Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times Supported by By Daniel E. Slotnik Piping plovers, dun-colored shorebirds that ...

An appealing little bird, the size of a sparrow and colored like the sand it nests in, has a better chance of persisting on the eastern Great Lakes thanks to the efforts of ESF researchers and their ...

Mar. 26—EMPIRE — Bird flu already claimed a bald eagle in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and researchers are watching for its spread as they await the arrival of another winged seasonal ...

Dear Bird Folks, Please take a look at the bird in the center of the attached photo and tell me if you think it’s an American Golden Plover. I’ve been looking for one of these birds all fall, but I’m ...