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Piping Plover
By Scott P



The Piping Plover is a small bird which weighs about half a pound. The Piping Plover is found in the Northern United States and Canada during the summer and they migrate to the southern and southeastern U.S. and Mexico and a few on the Caribbean islands during the winter. The Piping Plover nest along beaches and shorelines in northern United States and southern Canada. They usualy eat small insects like grasshoppers which are on the surface of the sand along the shoreline. They also eat spiders and crustaceans.

The Piping Plover was first considered endangered by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. The Piping Plover is losing it's nesting ground along the water's edge because humans are building dams and are able to raise and lower the water level which means when the water is raised the nests are flooded. When the water is lowered for a long time grass and weeds grow over the nest which makes it alot easier for people to step on the nest.