Media Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 16, 2013 Contact: Michelle Smith, Maine Audubon (207) 838-0511 Doug Rafferty, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (207) 287-5248 Scarborough – Maine Audubon, Maine Game Wardens and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service are seeking a witness in the death of protected Piping Plover chick on Pine Point […]
Plovers & Terns
A Day in the Life of a Plover Chick
By�Katie Burns and Mary Badger (Piping�Plover�project interns) A day in the life of a plover chick can be an amazing and terrifying thing for our biologists to behold. Resembling a fluffy cotton-ball, a Piping Plover chick is possibly one of the cutest babies in the animal kingdom. However, their twenty-five day journey from marshmallow to […]
Piping Plovers: Endangered, Small, and Tough.
By: Katie Burns, Piping�Plover�project intern Due to their endangered status and small stature, Piping Plovers are often given a bad rap by the general public. For years, they have been deemed �wimpy� or �pathetic,� but this is simply not the case. It’s time to set the record straight: Piping Plovers are tough cookies. Though this […]
Piping Plover Nesting Update
With nice weather due to return for the weekend here in Maine, we would like to take a moment for a short update on our Piping Plover Monitoring Program. After the storms in late April, a group of plover/endangered species biologists from United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and […]