The deliberate killing of three plover chicks has left a man $718 out of pocket after a video of the incident was provided to the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) last year. A member of the public reported the man to the QPWS in November after he was recorded crushing three plover chicks with […]
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Woman Rescues Baby Plover Bird From Street Drain
When this woman saw a distressed plover bird standing and pacing around a drain in the street, she knew something must be wrong, so she went to go check it out. It turned out that there was a tiny baby plover that had fallen and was stuck in the drain. @auslifewild opened the drain and […]
Fireworks display at Hampton Beach canceled in effort to protect endangered birds
Sunday night’s fireworks display at Hampton Beach in New Hampshire has been canceled to protect piping plovers, an endangered bird in New Hampshire, officials said. The piping plovers are nesting in the beach area, according to the Hampton Beach Facebook page. The birds are protected under New Hampshire law, and it is illegal to harm, […]
Migration resumes
The 7th Eilat Bird Festival is behind us and despite not getting to our usual final checklist of 240 species, we stillmanagedto get a nice assembly of species, some not very commonly seen neither at any of the past festivals nor every spring like these Hill Sparrow,Black Bush Robins &PharaohEagle Owland no less than 3 […]