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	New York State's Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species Fact Sheets - Piping Plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The piping plover is the first of the shorebirds to arrive on the breeding grounds, starting from early to mid-March.
		Piping plovers breed on dry sandy beaches or in areas that have been filled with dredged sand, often near dunes in areas with little or no beach grass.
		Piping plovers spend winters along the coast from Texas to North Carolina, and infrequently as far south as the Bahamas and Greater Antilles.
	www.dec.state.ny.us /website/dfwmr/wildlife/endspec/piplfs.html (722 words)

	MSN Encarta - Plover
		Plovers are distinguished from their similar shorebird relatives the sandpipers by their relatively short bills, which are enlarged and hardened at the tip.
		Taking the place of the piping plover on the Gulf coast and much of western North America is the similar snowy plover, which also ranges into South America and much of Eurasia, where it is known as the Kentish plover.
		The killdeer is classified as Charadrius vociferus, the piping plover as Charadrius melodus, the semipalmated plover as Charadrius semipalmatus, the common ringed plover as Charadrius hiaticula, and the snowy plover as Charadrius alexandrinus.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562437/Plover.html (623 words)

	Hinterland Who's Who - Piping Plover
		Piping Plovers feed on aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates that they capture with their bills by alternately running and pecking or probing along river, lake and ocean shores.
		Piping Plovers arrive on Canadian breeding grounds in late April or May. The males soon begin flight and ground displays in their efforts to establish a territory and attract a mate.
		Female Piping Plovers usually lay four pale buff-coloured, fl-speckled eggs during early May. The eggs, averaging 32 mm x 25 mm, are laid on alternate days with their pointed ends toward the centre of the sand or pebble-lined nest.
	www.hww.ca /hww2.asp?id=61 (1998 words)

	Province of Manitoba \| Manitoba Conservation Wildlife and Ecosystem Protection Branch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Piping plover nests are extremely vulnerable to predation and human disturbance.
		Threats to piping plovers include loss of nesting habitat due to cottage development, use of nesting beaches by cattle, all terrain vehicles, sunbathers, or other recreationalists, encroachment of vegetation, and flooding of nests or feeding areas by periodic high water levels.
		The Area designates half the spit for piping plover nesting only, with the remainder of the spit to be used by commercial fishermen of the area.
	www.gov.mb.ca /conservation/wildlife/managing/fs_piping_plover.html (282 words)

	Whitefish Point Bird Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Piping Plovers in breeding plumage have white bellies and a distinct fl neck band.
		Plovers usually leave Michigan in August and head for their wintering grounds on beaches in Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
		Plover research was conducted by Lauren Wemmer and Dr, Francie Cuthbert of the University of Minnesota.
	www.wpbo.org /featured/pipplo (693 words)

	Piping Plovers
		Piping plovers were widely distributed in small populations across their breeding range (Figure); most adults (63.2%) bred in the northern Great Plains and prairies of the United States and Canada.
		Atlantic coast piping plovers are commonly seen on east coast beaches during spring and fall migration.
		A similar threat to piping plovers occurs on Lake Diefenbaker in Saskatchewan, the largest piping plover breeding site in the world, where each year water levels are raised soon after parents have laid their clutches, resulting in a loss of all nests.
	biology.usgs.gov /s%2Bt/noframe/b243.htm (1286 words)

	Piping Plover
		Piping plovers are tiny shorebirds that inhabit sandy beaches where vegetation is sparse.
		Piping plovers inhabit shorelines of lakes, rivers and oceans.
		Plovers winter along the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico, the southern Atlantic states, the Bahamas and the West Indies.
	www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/land/er/factsheets/birds/PLOVER.HTM (1604 words)

	Species at risk - Piping Plover melodus subspecies
		The melodus subspecies of the Piping Plover is a North American bird that breeds along the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to South Carolina.
		In Canada, the melodus subspecies breeds on the Magdalen Islands of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.About 25% of Canada's Piping Plovers are found in the Atlantic provinces (the remainder, consisting of the circumcinctus subspecies, occur mostly in the prairie provinces).
		Piping Plovers arrive on their breeding grounds in Eastern Canada in late April or May. Males establish a territory and attract a mate with dramatic aerial and ground displays.
	www.speciesatrisk.gc.ca /search/speciesDetails_e.cfm?SpeciesID=687 (1543 words)

	Piping Plovers at the Cape May National Wildlife Refuge
		Piping Plovers were common along the Atlantic Coast during much of the 19th century, but nearly disappeared due to excessive hunting for the millinery trade.
		The piping plover breeds on the northern Great Plains, in the Great Lakes, and along the Atlantic coast (Newfoundland to North Carolina); and winters on the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts from North Carolina to Mexico, and in the Bahamas West Indies.
		The primary threats to the piping plover are habitat modification and destruction, and human disturbance to nesting adults and flightless chicks.
	capemay.fws.gov /PipingPloversCM.htm (1053 words)

	Promise for Plovers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		An adult piping plover and chick on an alkali lake in northwestern North Dakota.
		Piping plovers are small, bluebird-sized shorebirds, easily identified by pale, sandy-gray plumage, fl neck and forehead bands, orange legs, and a short, stout bill with an orange base.
		Piping plovers have three distinct breeding populations: (1) Atlantic coastal beaches from Newfoundland to North Carolina; (2) Great Lakes beaches; and (3) alkali lake beaches and river sandbars in the northern Great Plains from Alberta and Manitoba south to Nebraska.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/othrdata/plover/plover.htm (1691 words)

	Piping Plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Piping plovers are monogamous and both parents participate in all stages of parental care.
		Piping plovers winter along the southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and in the Bahamas and West Indies.
		Causes of Decline: Piping plovers have been drastically reduced in number, due to the loss of beach habitat and to the modification of habitat through the channelization and damming of rivers.
	ifw2es.fws.gov /oklahoma/plover.htm (451 words)

	Piping Plover Atlantic Coast Population: Overview
		The piping plover is a small, stocky, sandy-colored bird resembling a sandpiper.
		The piping plover breeds on coastal beaches from Newfoundland and southeastern Quebec to North Carolina.
		Several factors are contributing to the decline of the piping plover along the Atlantic Coast.
	www.fws.gov /northeast/pipingplover/overview.html (716 words)

	Piping Plover Critical Habitat Questions and Answers
		Currently, piping plovers live in an area similar to their historical range, although the numbers of those breeding in the Great Lakes region have decreased significantly since the 1930s.
		Piping plovers nesting in the Great Lakes are listed as endangered; piping plovers nesting along the Atlantic Coasts and in the northern Great Plains of the U.S. and Canada are listed as threatened.
		While piping plovers are frequently known to return to the same wintering beach each year, they are not necessarily tied to specific sites on that beach as they are when nesting or rearing young; therefore, human disturbance is less of an issue in wintering areas.
	www.fws.gov /plover/q&a.html (2862 words)

	Status of the Piping Plover - Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The most recent 1996 population surveys estimated 2000 pairs of piping plovers in North America of which about 700 are in Canada.
		Piping plovers breed locally along lakes and sloughs in the aspen parkland and northern fescue prairie in east-central Alberta.
		The historic breeding range of piping plovers extended as far north and west as Miquelon Lake, Beaverhill Lake, and Gull Lake, but there are no nesting records from these lakes since the mid-1970s.
	www3.gov.ab.ca /srd/fw/threatsp/pp_stat.html (340 words)

	All About Piping Plovers
		Piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) are small shorebirds approximately seven inches long with sand-colored plumage on their backs and crown and white underparts.
		Plovers in the Great Plains make their nests on open, sparsely vegetated sand or gravel beaches adjacent to alkali wetlands, and on beaches, sand bars, and dredged material islands of major river systems.
		Piping plovers from all three breeding populations winter along South Atlantic, Gulf Coast, and Caribbean beaches and barrier islands, primarily on intertidal beaches with sand and/or mud flats with no or very sparse vegetation.
	plover.fws.gov /facts.html (620 words)

	Encyclopedia: Piping Plover
		Genera Pluvialis Charadrius Thinornis Elseyornis Peltohyas Anarhynchus Phegornis Oreopholus Plovers are a widely distributed group of wading birds belonging to the subfamily Charadriinae.
		The Piping Plover is a sand-coloured, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches.
		In Eastern Canada, the Piping Plover is only found on coastal beaches.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Piping-Plover (652 words)

	Platte River Endangered Species Partnership(PRESP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Piping plovers feed along the water's edge on small insects, crustaceans and mollusks.
		In South Dakota, the piping plover is a common breeding associate of the endangered interior least tern.
		Distribution: Three North American breeding populations of piping plovers are recognized and have the following distributions: the Atlantic Coast from Newfoundland to Virginia; the Great Lakes, excluding the rocky north shores of Lakes Superior and Huron; and the northern Great Plains.
	www.platteriver.org /backgr/plover.htm (555 words)

	NatureWorks - Piping Plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The piping plover returns to its breeding ground in late March or early April.
		The male piping plover courts the female by flying over her and swooping down close to the ground.
		Piping plovers and their eggs blend in very well with the sand, which is good camouflage from predators, but it can put them in danger of being stepped on by humans.
	www.nhptv.org /natureworks/pipingplover.htm (446 words)

	Piping Plover
		At the turn of the century feather, egg, and sport hunters pushed the piping plover, a 6-inch shorebird with gray and white markings, to the verge of extinction.
		New England's piping plovers are faring well overall, Jones adds, citing relatively low predation of chicks and tight management practices as reasons.
		Piping plovers in mid-Atlantic and southeastern states are especially vulnerable to a wide range of predators including raccoons, skunks, cats, dogs, foxes, owls, snakes, and gulls.
	www.susdev.org /piping_plover.html (415 words)

	Atlantic Green Lane - Endangered Species: Piping Plover
		The Piping Plover’s best defense mechanism is its ability to blend into its habitat; unfortunately, this makes it vulnerable to its worst enemies: people.
		Piping Plovers blend in well with their habitat and become almost invisible among the pebble and shell fragments where they nest.
		The Piping Plover was listed as endangered by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada in 1985 because of many factors affecting the survival of young.
	www.ns.ec.gc.ca /wildlife/plover (328 words)

	CT DEP: Piping Plover Fact Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The piping plover is often confused with another member of its family, the killdeer, which has 2 fl bands across its chest and is larger than the plover.
		Plovers are able to breed in their first year.
		Beachgoers are met at the beginning of the territory by the plover and escorted along by the walking bird until the territory ends.
	dep.state.ct.us /burnatr/wildlife/factshts/pplover.htm (691 words)

	USFWS - Region 3: Piping Plover
		The piping plover in the Great Lakes area is an endangered species.
		The Great Lakes population of the piping plover is at a perilously low level.
		There are three locations where piping plovers nest in North America: the shorelines of the Great Lakes, the shores of rivers and lakes in the Northern Great Plains, and along the Atlantic Coast.
	midwest.fws.gov /endangered/pipingplover/pipingpl.html (856 words)

	Piping Plover Fact Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The piping plover is classified as threatened throughout it's entire North American range and as endangered in Maryland.
		Piping plovers eat marine worms, crustaceans, beetles, fly larvae, mollusks, and other small marine animals and their eggs.
		Piping plover populations have been reduced due to increased development and recreational uses of beaches along the Atlantic coast.
	www.dnr.state.md.us /wildlife/pplover.html (203 words)

	IFWIS - Piping plover
		Piping plovers on the great lakes or atlantic coast are associated with fairly wide, sandy, sparsely or unvegetated beaches when nesting 07,08,10,18.
		The piping plover had always occupied a restricted habitat in Illinois and began declining with increased recreational use of its habitat, Lake Michigan shoreline, in the 1950's 02.
		Piping plover is protected by the Illinois Endangered Species Act 1972 02 and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, 1918 15 and the Illinois Wildlife Code, 1971 21.
	www.inhs.uiuc.edu /chf/pub/ifwis/birds/piping-plover.html (1480 words)

	SchoolWorld Endangered Species Project: Piping Plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Plovers live on beaches, sand and mud flats in North America.
		The plovers were exposed to spring and fall shooting.
		There is not enough food for them because other animals are eating their food and there isn't any insects were they live because it is to dry all it has to eat is seeds.
	www.schoolworld.asn.au /species/plover.html (303 words)

	Plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In the summer piping plovers breed and nest beside lakes in the prairies of the United States and Canada.
		Piping plovers are gray and plain brown which helps them camouflage against the sandy, pebbly beaches where they live.
		Piping plovers can live up to 14 years, but most only live to be about 5 years old.
	www.alumni.ca /~kimbe3j (1418 words)

	Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus)
		Piping plovers look like a small, pale killdeer with a single dark breast stripe.
		Piping plovers lay four eggs in a small scrape on the ground and depend on the coloration of their eggs and feathers for protection.
		Piping plovers are an endangered species in Michigan.
	www.michigan.gov /dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12145_12202-61379--,00.html (114 words)

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