Piping Plover

Piping Plover, Charadrius melodus

Piping Plover is listed as threatened in the United States and as endangered in Canada. This species breeds only in North America in three geographic regions.
The Atlantic Coast population breeds on sandy beaches along the east coast of North America, from Newfoundland to South Carolina.
The Great Lakes population historically nested on sandy beaches throughout the Great Lakes but has declined dramatically and now occurs on just a few sites on the upper lakes.
The third population breeds on major river systems and alkali lakes and wetlands of the Northern Great Plains.
There is considerable interest in and work on the breeding success of Piping Plover and as a result, there are many places on the web where information can be obtained. The following are the major ones we have found.

Piping Plovers
a fact sheet
The Piping Plover in Eastern Canada
from Environment Canada's Green Lane with color photo and .wav file of the plover's calls.
Hinterland Who's Who - Plover
Canadian Wildlife Service (endangered in Canada) with b&w photo, range map, video clip (800K), reading list and French version.
Piping Plover Home Page
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Mountain-Prairie Region
Promise for Plovers
by Sarah E. Dooling (originally published in North Dakota Outdoors)
ES: Piping Plover
status in Alberta with photo and range map.
Species at risk:
Piping Plover circumcinctus subspecies in Canada
The Piping Plover Guardian Program
The aim of this program is to assist in the conservation and recovery of the Piping Plover in Atlantic Canada.
Birds of the Upper Texas Coast - Piping Plover
with portrait photo and link to map of CBC range.
Recovery of the piping plover in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in 1997
Whitefish Point Bird Observatory Species Highlight
Piping Plover status in Ohio

KEJIMKUJIK'S PIPING PLOVER
data from the Seaside Adjunct, the coastal portion of Kejimkujik National Park in Nova Scotia.
Piping Plover Fact Sheet
New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation.
Piping Plover
Texas Parks & Wildlife endangered and threatened species fact sheet with photo.
Janet Egan's Piping Plover Page
Plover Warden Diaries from Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island, Massachusetts.

Atlantic Coast Piping Plover Quiz
Have fun testing your knowledge of the Atlantic Coast piping plover!

Wintering Piping Plovers and other things....
The focus of this page will be on WINTERING Piping Plover information."
--This page has some overlap of links, but lots of additional ones!

The Shorebird Watcher Lapwing

[Birding from the North Coast]

URL: http://pw1.netcom.com/~djhoff/pipllink.html
Send mail to: Dick & Jean Hoffman

Changes last made on: 14 Jan 2005