Where are the Piping Plovers?
Piping Plovers Spend Summers in the North and Winters in the South
Piping Plover recovery projects have focused on protecting the birds while they are breeding in summer: less is known about their winter range.
The Piping Plover is listed as endangered in some areas and threatened in others. Since the late 1980s, conservation efforts in both Canada and the United States (the two countries where Piping Plovers breed) have achieved a modest recovery in Piping Plover populations. Recovery projects have focused on protecting the bird’s nests - less is known, however, about how Piping Plovers fare in winter.
Piping Plovers spend the winter in the south – on Atlantic and Gulf seacoasts from South Carolina all the way to Mexico, and on Caribbean Islands. Though the vulnerability of eggs and chicks is not an issue during the winter, Piping Plovers still face threats from predators and from humans using and developing the shoreline. Scientists are trying to find out more about what happens to Piping Plovers in the winter.
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