How Piping Plover Chicks Spurred a City to Make a Safer Beach
6/24/2019 - By Deborah Cramer. In early April of last year, Gloucester, Massachusetts, resident Kim Smith discovered three Piping Plovers had arrived, exhausted, on the city’s Good Harbor Beach. They foraged in the wind and lingering snow, and a pair began courting, the male digging nest scrapes in the sand for his… SEE MORE