Thursday, January 29, 2009

piping plover

Piping Plover

Classic Hinterland Who's Who, and my personal favorite.

The Piping Plover
* is an endangered species in Canada
* male is left to rear the young when his mate abandons the family
* has been known to nest in parking lots
* nests in only three areas in North America

For more information about the Piping Plover and other members of the Canadian wildlife please visit http://www.hww.ca/

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Yahoo news related to piping plover

Best way to help state's threatened birds is to protect the habitats they call home (New London Day)
Hartford - The best way to protect the piping plover, the saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrow and all of the state's threatened birds is to preserve

Permits, birds may delay outfall pipes in Lower Twp. (Press of Atlantic City)
LOWER TOWNSHIP - Bayshore residents may have to wait until September for relief from flooding problems that were supposed to be solved last year. Steve Morey, the township's new engineer, delivered that bad news to residents this week.

Cape May Point to get beach-fill project (Press of Atlantic City)
CAPE MAY POINT - More sand is coming and going in the borough under a new $4.5 million beach project set to begin in mid-February. The Army Corps of Engineers project includes pumping in 70,000 cubic yards of sand. This sand would stretch from the borough to Second Avenue in Cape May.

Google news related to piping plover

Piping Plover Population Increases Along Connecticut Shore - Hartford Courant  At that time, only 550 piping plover pairs nested from Maine to North Carolina. Connecticut wasn't the only state that saw an increase in plover activity in ...

Zoo to host talk about piping plover preservation - Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com  Guest speaker Bonnie VanDam, associate curator of birds for the Detroit Zoo, will lead the lecture on the piping plover, sharing experiences of working with ...

Rebuilding begins at Shell Beach - Shelter Island Reporter  ... opportunity to exercise its hard-won authorization to rebuild Shell Beach and its roadway by March 31, before the piping plover breeding season begins. ...

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