Melissa in the Morning: Piping Plovers

The protected Piping Plover nests in shallow scrapes in the sand. Here, an adult plover watches with care over it’s young during an early morning sunrise at the beach.

Melissa in the Morning: Piping Plovers

It was facing extinction but now the piping plover has taken a U-turn in a better direction. New reports are highlighting the bird population numbers doing better. Tom Anderson of the Connecticut Audubon Society talked about the success story and credit to Connecticut for helping the bird species thrive.

For more information: https://www.ctaudubon.org/

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