How to Use piping plover in a Sentence

piping plover

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  • And the uptick in piping plover nests is a testament to hard work.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 29 May 2018
  • The most infamous Cape bird might be the piping plover.
    — Susan Moeller, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
  • Martha’s Vineyard: A piping plover, a common raven, and a white-eyed vireo were seen at Gay Head.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2021
  • But two piping plovers lately have been making the beach their home.
    — USA TODAY, 17 June 2019
  • Less than two decades ago, there were 17 pairs of piping plovers in the Brigantine area; last year there were four.
    — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Four piping plovers and 16 Bonaparte’s gulls were spotted at Point of Pines.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
  • And the piping plovers who have made the beach their summer home may not be going anywhere anytime soon.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2019
  • Yet the island is also the seasonal home to piping plovers, a small bird that returns every year to dig its nests on the beach.
    — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 6 May 2018
  • The most recent state tally found 89 nesting pairs of piping plovers on Maine beaches.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2019
  • After Imani left Montrose, a fledgling piping plover, hatched just this summer, touched down for a few days.
    — Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
  • As a pair of piping plover parents anxiously hopped about, waves swept over a shoreline nest and carried four eggs from their sandy home.
    — Hannah Gavin, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017
  • The piping plover is a small bird with a very short bill, according to the National Audubon Society’s website.
    — Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022
  • Dozens of threatened and endangered species live in the area, including birds like the piping plover and red knot, and Kemp’s ridley sea turtle.
    — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The piping plover nests in Maine and is listed as threatened along the East Coast by federal authorities.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022
  • For instance, the piping plover, which builds its nests in sandy areas along the Atlantic coast, is expected to see its habitat encroached by the rising seas.
    — New York Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • That includes Kemp’s ridley sea turtle and the piping plover, a little shorebird that nests on sandy beaches.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 1 May 2023
  • In 2016 the endangered piping plover successfully nested and fledged three chicks on the chain, and this trip offers a chance to see the bird along with other migrating birds.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2020
  • Elon Musk might fashion himself a friend of free speech, but his aerospace company is looking like an enemy of the piping plover.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 4 May 2022
  • There are a couple thousand piping plover pair nests from North Carolina to eastern Canada.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022
  • This is often unfortunate, as ghost crabs have broad culinary tastes, and hatchling piping plovers sometimes wind up on the crab’s menu, along with the crab’s usual fare of insects, dead fish and clams.
    — New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • But nature is an orchestra, and this preserve offers a nonstop symphony of shore birds, piping plover, wind whispering through the trees and more to soothe the mind and spirit.
    — Josh Max, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • Monty the piping plover has died Friday, authorities said.
    — Rosemary Sobol, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2022
  • An endangered shorebird, the piping plover, began nesting here in 2016 after a thirty-year hiatus.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Royal terns are expected to suffer their largest losses of habitat in the lower Chesapeake Bay region, and piping plovers could also vanish.
    — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Protected by the Endangered Species Act, piping plover breeding pairs now number nearly 700.
    — Aimee Ortiz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The Audubon Society sued the Trump administration over the policy change last year, saying sand-mining projects destroy avian habitat, including that for the piping plover and red knot species.
    — Katy Stech Ferek, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • Minnesota species on that list, either resident, migrant, or occasional visitor, are piping plover, red knot, and golden-winged and cerulean warblers.
    — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021
  • In addition to large gull concentrations off the east side, sightings included a brown booby, the continued presence of an American white pelican, a late piping plover, a snowy egret, a Western kingbird, and two common ravens.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Frontier said the image honors Francie Cuthbert, a researcher that heads a University of Minnesota effort to help restore the piping plover population.
    — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Newly arriving local nesting birds included an American oystercatcher seen in Orleans, a piping plover in Falmouth, 3 tree swallows in Hyannis, and ospreys in a few places.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2021

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