piping plover
charadrius melodus latin

"The piping plover is important for the role that they play within the entire ecological community," she said.

One of its relatives, the piping plover, is already on the endangered list.

Two such visitors are the piping plover and the sea turtle.

These include the piping plover, a bird that is protected on the island.

The endangered species of Piping plovers find sanctuary here as well.

One heard often is: "Piping plovers are wonderful - prepared in garlic."

St. Ambroise is also home to the endangered piping plover.

The site is an important staging and breeding area for the endangered Piping plover.

The piping plover, an endangered species, nests on refuge land.

There are also endangered birds like the piping plover and osprey.

Piping plovers are small shore birds weighing less than three ounces.

Here the rare piping plover and other beach-nesting birds raise their young.

Crane Beach is an important nesting site for the threatened piping plover.

Wildlife refuge staff also maintain a piping plover nesting program.

A sandy area near the pond is a nesting ground for the piping plover.

The piping plover is another obstacle that nature has hurled at village residents.

But the piping plover, an endangered shore bird, is threatening a delay.

This area is a breeding site for the endangered Piping Plover.

The bay is one of four known breeding areas for the rare Piping Plover.

Federal law requires that piping plovers be protected.

Because piping plovers, an endangered species, are nesting in the area, sand will be placed only as needed.

It said the project would also disrupt nesting areas for piping plovers, an endangered species.

This reduces the breeding habitat for the Piping plover.

The reservation is an important nesting area for the piping plover and the least tern.

This park is home to many piping plovers, a federally protected shorebird.

The former (Charadrius melodus) ran with great rapidity and then stood stock still remarkably erect and hardly to be distinguished from the beach.

The Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus circumcinctus) is an endangered species of this area.

Protected nesting areas for the Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) are provided in the spring.

Piping plover (Charadrius melodus)

The Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches in North America.

But if I were required to name a sound, the remembrance of which most perfectly revives the impression which the beach has made, it would be the dreary peep of the piping plover (Charadrius melodus) which haunts there.