Slideshow
Piping Plover Chick and Eggs in a sheltered nest.
Piping Plover Chick in Hand during measuring.
Arrow points at an adult Piping Plover on nest. Well hidden.
Piping Plover on nest with two eggs.
Piping Plover Chick
Piping Plove eggs in protected fence area in 2008
Piping Plover Chick
Adult Piping Plover at water's edge.
Piping Plover Adult
Piping Plover Chicks in an Exclosure
Piping Plover adult
Un-banded adult plover
Chick trying to take first steps.
Plover
By Kathleen Jamie
If, while pitching my tent
West of Lochan na h-Earba,
I'd trodden on the nest
of the ringed plover,
I'd have walked the moor
of brittle grass and tormentil
barefoot, in the summer hail
–distant from that
Small bird tilting by the water,
who finds everything
she needs there –shingle
for her four eggs; food and company.
From "Bright Wings—an Illustrated Anthology of Poems about Birds", 2010, edited by Billy Collins, Columbia University Press, New York, NY.
Videos
Foraging of Piping Plover in winter and breeding plumage. Courtesy of The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
