For Macro Mondays 'Button'

A button on Daniel's favourite Piping Hot Jacket.

Barnegat Light, NJ

Heartbroken to lean that this cute specie is endangered due to its habitat loss.

Maine

Piping Plover (Juvenile)

Cape May County, NJ

The only surviving one out of three piping plover pairs. Storms and a coyote took out the others. Taken from in the ocean!

Maine

Connecticut

Everyone needs a secret beach hideout. Researchers only recently discovered that more than one-third of the Piping Plover population that breeds along the Atlantic coast spends the winter in the Bahamas.

They are endangered due to habitat loss, disturbance, and predation.

(Immature), Fish Haul Creek Beach, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Connecticut

Connecticut

Southern Maine

Connecticut

Maine

Post-bath wing flap and hop

Connecticut

I've always thought that eagles sound a bit like a pipe or a flute- kind of melodic and windy. Maybe I'm crazy.

Jordan Lake, North Carolina, USA

Little Compton, RI

The saying that the early bird gets the worm is true for Piping Plovers. Pairs that nest early are more likely to successfully raise young than those that nest later in the season.

Massachusetts, USA | 07-July-16