For years, officials with the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) hired about five seasonal piping plover monitors to ...

One of the nation’s leading experts on a critically endangered bird says potential federal spending cuts could spell doom for the Great Lakes piping plover.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says it won’t let any federal funding issues slow its work to protect the Great ...

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is the heart of migratory piping plover habitat in the upper Great Lakes. But experts worry recent Trump administration spending cuts may leave gaps in ...

In the fall, after the plovers migrate to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the United States, monitors help prepare the ...

Piping plover chicks are ready to roam the beach just hours after hatching. Fortunately, their parents stay close to shelter ...

Since its Endangered Species Act protection more than 20 years ago, piping plover numbers have increased — through intensive nest and predator-management programs, as well as the designation of ...

The first time he was president, Donald Trump proposed slashing the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative ... and the habitats of piping plover and other nesting birds, among other projects.