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NYC Plover Project

4 years

First tweet! More news to come about our effort to bring folks, organizations and agencies together that are fighting to protect the Piping Plovers that nest on NYC beaches! So keep your ear to the ground! 😀

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@NycPlover

4 months

🚨This is not a drill! 🚨 We have chicks on all beaches! Thank you for your understanding & cooperation with temporary beach closures which are literally life or death for this endangered species. A little inconvenience for us can help these fragile babies survive. 📷: @4binator

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3 years

A young Piping Plover ❤️, beautifully photographed by Matt Filosa (note: as with all images @NycPlover posts, ethical photography is always practiced— a safe distance from our subjects, w/ telephoto lenses & and we never, nor do we condone, posting locations of nests and chicks)

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2 years

Beach closures are temporary. Her life shouldn’t be. We beg you, stay out of the closures. Speak up, save a life, pass it on. #protecttheplovers

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2 years

We are here to help more of this dad’s chicks survive. In NYC, feral cats & raccoons are leading culprits. We have seen tracks all summer. We will join our partners to continue to do more to protect Piping Plovers & ensure their species’ survival. (🎥: @4binator , cropped & zoom)

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2 years

Why we do our work in one photo. Plover parent & babies. 🥰 (photo: @4binator , at a safe distance, 600mm, 1.4x & cropped)

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2 years

We were today years old when we learned that @POTUS ’s new rockstar @PressSec Karine Jean-Pierre was a Piping Plover nest monitor!!! ❤️❤️😃😃 Hi Press Secretary! Please come to NYC to meet our Plover summer residents!

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2 years

First of the year! Piping Plover in NYC! #protecttheplovers

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4 months

❤️‍🔥 Here comes trouble! ❤️‍🔥 This little baby is alive today because of @nycparks ’s Rockaway Beach Endangered Species Nesting Area in Rockaway. Born in Rockaway in June, she’s a New Yorker too. 🧵

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2 years

A young Piping Plover chick takes her first steps. Beautifully photographed by our volunteer @4binator , with zoom & and at a safe distance. These babies are the most vulnerable beings on the beach. Will you help us protect them?

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2 years

#nycmarathon winner!!! 😊 Piping Plovers are an endangered species that nest each year on the beaches of Rockaway, Queens. We are lucky to share our city with them ❤️ 🍎 🏃🏽‍♂️

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5 months

Reason #1 for a temporary beach closure —> so this little flightless Piping Plover chick has a fighting chance. To be (potentially) inconvenienced to use another part of the beach, you’re helping to protect an endangered species. So instead of complaining or whining, let’s ask …

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1 year

BREAKING NEWS - Clark Kent & his Wonder Woman partner have a fledgling! Born in mid June, this is believed to be Clark’s first fledgling since he’s been coming to Tilden beginning in 2020! 🧵

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5 months

This is bittersweet post. It is one of gratitude, but also one of heartbreak. So far this season, we have not seen our beloved Clark Kent. As many of our followers and friends know, Clark has been seen on our beaches at Fort Tilden in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. 🧵

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1 year

How it started: Clark Kent at 5 days in June 2018! How it’s going: Clark Kent at 5 years with one of his chicks in June 2023! 📷: @teribwrs (2018); @allieri (2023)

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8 months

Fly high, Flaco. May you join your flock of Eurasian eagle-owls. You inspired many New Yorkers. Let’s hope your life causes us all to do more and do better for our city’s wildlife. 🖤

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2 years

Piping Plover chick, 11 days old. Please send ❤️ & good vibes to this family. (Photo, cropped & zoomed, @JenKepler )

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3 years

Perfect 10 beach body. 😍

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2 years

🚨ATTENTION NYC!🚨 The most beloved & vulnerable *new* New Yorkers have arrived! Please give them space. Plover chicks must have access to the water line to feed from the first few hours of their fragile lives. Don’t enter closed areas & 🚫 🐩🚶🏊🏽‍♂️🏄🏽‍♀️🎣📷 in walk thru only areas.

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2 years

Piping Plover dad & chick. Please help us protect them. Fewer than 100 come to NYC each year to raise a family. They are an endangered species, we are not. They need our help. (video, shot at a safe distance w/ zoom, @4binator )

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1 year

Dogs cause nest abandonment, the death of shorebirds & massive stress to birds like Piping Plovers & American Oystercatchers. Imagine you’re a 2”-tall plover chick & a giant 🐕 comes barreling towards you. Even good dogs cause harm. No 🐶 on any NYC beaches until Sept. Thank you.

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2 years

We ❤️ you, Piping Plovers, & we will never stop fighting for you.

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2 years

This one-legged plover is back with us again this season. Meaning they made it 2,000 miles on a round trip migration to come back to Rockaway. The strength & resilience of these birds is remarkable. They can teach us a thing or two, if we just open our minds & hearts & let them.

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3 months

She’s a New Yorker too. Tiny flightless Piping Plover chicks feed themselves from birth. They must go to the water’s edge to feed on tiny worms and mollusks, without the assistance of their parents. The good news is that more chicks are surviving on our city’s busy beaches (…)

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@NycPlover

2 years

Can’t stop, won’t stop fighting for this species and their babies. 💪🏽💪🏽 #protecttheplovers

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2 years

Baby! This beautiful Piping Plover chick is 2 days old! Chicks need 3 weeks to be able to fly, access to the water to feed & a dog-free beach without people blocking their way to the water. We need your help, please speak up if you see someone entering closed areas. 📷: @4binator

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2 years

This family deserves just as much respect and protection as any of ours. #protecttheplovers 📷: @4binator , photographed ethically w/ crop & zoom

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2 years

Swagger from birth. #protecttheplovers

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1 year

Clark Kent’s chick is 21 days old. As you may know, Clark lost his nest in 2021 due to human vandals & his chicks were rapidly predated in 2022. We are so excited to see this little one getting bigger and fatter. Both parents are attentively caring for her. (1)

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1 year

A sweet young New Yorker. A piping plover chick feeding undisturbed at the shoreline. A beautiful sight! 🎥: @4binator w/ telephoto zoom #protectendangeredspecies #protecttheplovers

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@NycPlover

1 year

They’re here! Piping Plover chicks are the most vulnerable beings on our NYC’s beaches. They need and deserve more space and protections - not less. We are here to do just that. We are just getting started and are a massive movement of supporters. Join us. #protecttheplovers

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1 year

Piping plover chicks don’t follow the rules but we need you to! Some of the little chicks on the beach like to wander - A LOT. Please watch where you step, absolutely no dogs and kindly follow posted signs & temporary closures. Pass it on! Join us to #protecttheplovers ! 🥰

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2 years

This baby needs protecting. Endangered Piping Plovers are not doing well in NYC, and us 8.3 million New Yorkers are largely to blame. Let’s be a kinder & better city, that looks out for the most vulnerable, even if they happen to have feathers. Join us. 📷: @4binator

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3 months

A Piping Plover drinking rainwater out of a broken shell. That’s your Monday post. Have a super week, friends! Plovers are on the move with many heading south already across the Atlantic Coast, Great Lakes & Prairie ranges. 💕 @JenKepler had the perfect shot ❤️

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1 year

This is the only photo of a now extinct Carolina Parakeet, of a captive bird in a “natural setting”, taken around 1900. The one native parrot species in the U.S. is now gone. Human activity led to the extinction of this species. 🧵

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2 years

This tiny Plover will be leaving soon…with our hearts. If someone summed up this season, the story is this juvenile right here. We have had so much heartbreak, people threaten our volunteers, plovers stepped on. We are just getting started. You’ve inspired us to keep going.

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1 year

This endangered piping plover chick is 14 days old. HERE ARE 10 PIPING PLOVER FACTS: 1. Piping plover chicks must feed themselves from birth. 🧵

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2 years

Seriously, stay out of the beach closure. It’s temporary. And you may be too if you mess with him. 💪🏽💪🏽 #protecttheplovers

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4 months

Protecting New Yorker families like this one, all day, every day. We won’t stop. Ever. Join us. You can hear a JFK Airport ✈️ take-off in the background beautiful video by @4binator 💕 #protecttheplovers 💪🏽💪🏽

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1 year

Piping plover eating a mosquito. Doing their part. ❤️ #protecttheplovers

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3 years

And it’s Monty! 😍 It was completely awesome to see Monty of Chicago’s famed couple, Monty & Rose, at the Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary in Texas! Each year Monty travels there - over 1100 miles from Montrose Beach, Chicago! Rose goes to Anclote Key, Florida. (1)

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2 months

It’s super rare to see a Piping Plover up close, even rarer to see a young fledgling. Our wonderful volunteer @JenKepler got this shot — safely, with telephoto zoom & cropped — & now we are so happy to share it with you! ❤️

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2 years

He’s back! Tilden’s hottest babe: Clark Kent! Originally a Jersey Boy, he hatched and was banded at Island Beach State Park in 2018, and has been seen in Georgia during his migration and on his wintering grounds in beautiful Andros, Bahamas….(1) 📷: @4binator #protecttheplovers

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2 years

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2 years

⚠️ CAUTION BABIES! The first Piping Plover & American Oystercatcher chicks are arriving on NYC beaches! Please leave your 🐕 at home & don’t enter closed areas. If you see someone breaking these life-saving rules - at @gatewaynps , call 718 354-4700 or at @nycparks (646) 613-1200

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2 months

Fall migration is underway! Please keep your dogs at home, tell your kids not to chase birds & give the travelers some space, especially when they are feeding at the water’s edge! Our great volunteer Lily caught this beautiful moment 🩵

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1 year

Piping plovers make great parents. They fiercely protect their babies until they can fly, which takes a month at the very least. We are seeing NYC plovers take longer to fledge or fly likely as they can’t get down to the water’s edge to feed as easily on our busy beaches, …

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2 years

This family needs our help. They use the beach for survival. We use the beach for recreation. New Yorkers have plenty of beach, they get very little. We *can* share the beach to help this at-risk endangered species. Let’s be a good society and do just that. 🎥: @4binator (1)

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2 years

We love you, little round fledgling. Being your protectors these past few weeks have been a true honor. Many many people are behind you, wishing you well, our newest little New Yorker. #protecttheplovers

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1 year

This year, two tiny chicks were born on one of New York’s busiest beaches & became fledglings under their parents’ watchful eyes. Their nest withstood high tides, thousands of beachgoers and many predators, but they could not have survived without a temporary beach closure…

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1 year

Lots of these little ones running around NYC beaches right now - baby American oystercatchers! Protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, these new little New Yorkers can use some help too - a dog-free beach with respectful humans who give them space. We can do this!

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3 months

After many, many hours & days on end of tireless incubating, Petrie’s first chick was born! 💕💕💕 📷: @4binator

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1 year

New Yorkers come in all sizes. This new little Rockaway local was born 2 weeks ago. She needs your help. A beach without dogs, people, trash, keeps her alive. You with us to protect her? 📷: @allieri , w/ telephoto zoom

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3 years

A Piping Plover chick (2 weeks old) takes her first flight attempts under the shelter of a discarded beach chair. Chicks need ~ 25 days to fledge. Once they fly, they are over a big hurdle. We can give her a dog-free beach without harassment from humans, can’t we? (📷: @allieri )

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3 months

NEW VIDEO DROPPED! They’re New Yorkers too! We are New Yorkers, they are New Yorkers. Let’s protect the most vulnerable, even if they have feathers! ❤️ video: @michelletalich footage: @4binator , @allieri special thanks to our amazing team of #ploverprotectors 💕

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3 months

And Petrie’s chicks — now, fledglings! This means they can fly and are ready to head south for their first fall migration - maybe 1,000+ miles to The Bahamas! Thank you for following along this week to learn about Petrie & his partner and their miraculous story…

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2 years

It’s our anniversary! Two years ago today, 3.24.21, an idea was born. To bring together a group of passionate New Yorkers to fight to protect an endangered species that needed help on our beaches. Today, we are a movement. Hundreds of volunteers have signed on, …(1)

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@NycPlover

10 months

Heading into 2024 like … Here’s to a great year ahead for Piping Plovers, for all beach-nesting birds, for our city’s wildlife & all us humans too! Happy 2024 to all! 🥳

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1 year

Chick. ❤️ #protecttheplovers 📷: @4binator , w/ telephoto zoom

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3 years

Spring migration starting …. NOW! Piping Plovers are on their way! They will literally arrive to NYC and New York State beaches any day now. Safe travels, friends, and see you soon! #protecttheplovers

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3 months

Fragile, tiny, fleeting. Many Plover chicks don’t survive. But more and more are reaching the age when they can fly, or become fledglings, in NYC because of our work together with our partners at @gatewaynps & @nycparks , our amazing @nycplover volunteers, … 🧵

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2 years

He’s a ten. Period. #perfectbeachbody

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1 year

This special dad - Clark Kent - has 4 tiny chicks as of this morning. He’s a protector and defender! 💪🏽 There’s an army of folks out protecting him too and his family. Happy Father’s Day, Clark! You rock! #protecttheplovers #fathersday Photos: @JenKepler , w/ telephoto zoom

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2 years

Clark Kent was born in ‘18 in NJ. He’s been back to Ft Tilden the past 3 summers. In 2021, humans destroyed his nest & took his eggs 2 days before hatch. No justice ever came for that evil act. This summer, last week, he lost all 4 chicks in under 24 hrs to unknown predators. 1/

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3 months

They are leaving. Many have left. And we are sad. But they will be back in March & there’s many new fledglings this year across all NYC beaches. But there’s many shorebirds still around & many more passing through each day. No 🐩, please! 📷: Winston Qin

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1 year

Piping plover super dad! Plover parents are their tiny chicks #1 defense but all of us as New Yorkers can be plover protectors too! Let your elected officials know you support protecting our city’s one endangered species. Link in bio to take action. 📷: @4binator w/ telephoto

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@NycPlover

2 years

This little round New Yorker was born in July. She survived because a small portion of the beach around her was temporarily closed. She was then able to feed at the water’s edge with her dad. Fathers often finish the chick-rearing duties! (1)

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3 months

Piping Plover fledgling taking a test flight over the ocean. Fledgling & adult shorebirds are about to set off on long journeys for migrations, some Plovers may travel 1,000+ miles! Please remember to continue to give Plovers, Oystercatchers and other birds space, NO DOGS …

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8 months

And ….. BACK! The first 2024 NYC Plover! Our volunteer @4binator spotted the first Piping Plover arriving this spring! A beautiful way to kick off our FOURTH SEASON 💕💕💕💕

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4 months

If you were to pick one to survive, who would you pick? Only 1 of these 3 survived. 🧵

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1 year

And just like that, the final fledgling of the 2023 season in NYC, flew off. This little warrior was born in mid July but took longer to fly. Our volunteer @michelletalich was the last to see this bird on Labor Day, and caught this miraculous moment. Safe travels, beautiful one!

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1 year

Piping plovers feed on tiny 🪱, 🦀, & clams, where the waves break on the sand. Their tiny 🐥 will not go to feed if we are there. We just need to give them this space during the first few weeks of their lives. There are 15+ miles of beach for us to use. We can do this New York!

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4 months

Little baby, big beach. A teeny tiny New Yorker braves the surf in Edgemere, Far Rockaway ❤️‍🔥 Kind & compassionate societies look out for the most vulnerable. @nycparks beaches belong to us all. We can do this New York! #protecttheplovers

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3 months

Two chicks were born on June 3rd, and one more on June 4th. Within hours, plover chicks are up and running, and must feed themselves at the water’s edge. Little by little, they got closer to the surf, under Petrie & his partner’s watchful eyes. ❤️ 📷: @4binator

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7 months

Piping Plover chicks are tiny, can’t fly & feed themselves from birth. Temporary beach closures make all the difference in their young lives. Protecting an endangered species means that a minor inconvenience = life or death for them. Join us. Volunteer. Donate. Speak up for them.

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1 year

Thank you to @ABCbirds for this full page ad in today’s @chicagotribune about the 1000+ birds killed in one day caused by @McCormick_Place . Please join ABC, organizations across Chicago and the USA, and our friends and partners at @chicagopiping , in demanding action.

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1 year

Today is #WorldMigratoryBirdDay Migratory Bird Day. Migratory birds, which include most shorebirds, are facing unprecedented threats ranging from habitat destruction to climate change. This year, @worldmigratorybirdday focuses on water. 🧵

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2 years

🚨Fledgling Alert! This Plover chick has officially fledged! Soon she or he will head south w/ the adults. Plovers need protection all season long, & here’s to more fledglings. But this is a major milestone in this new member of the population’s life. Be safe, kiddo, we ❤️ you!

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3 months

Shorebirds are lining up to go south. Sometimes, literally (!) like these Semipalmated Plovers & Whimbrels. As they head off on long journeys - please give them space. NO 🐕 on any beach, no 🪁 or e-bikes, & stay out of closed areas. Even minor disturbances can add up. Thank you!

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2 years

So much love for this little bird. Together, we are #unstoppable . #protecttheplovers we ❤️ u, @Sia

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1 year

I cant fly. I must feed myself at the water’s edge. If I don’t, I will die. I’m one of a few survivors. My parents fiercely protect me, but I need your help. Let’s be a good society and protect the most vulnerable, even if they have feathers. Join us.

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3 years

Within hours of birth, Plover chicks are running. For the first ~ 25 days, predators, climate change & people are major threats. Unlike too many that are born, this chick became a fledgling & will be heading off on her 1st migration soon. Here’s to more fledglings next season.

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2 years

🍒 💣 #protecttheplovers (🎥: @4binator , 🎵: The Runaways)

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2 years

Our wonderful new volunteer @hurricane_sue captured this moment today of a newly arrived Piping Plover supervising our 50+ volunteers setting up fencing! It was so great to share the moment that many of our volunteers saw a Piping Plover for the first time. #protecttheplovers 💪🏽

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1 year

Our volunteer @JenKepler caught this tender moment of a new mom & her babies. The beach around her is closed, as the 🐥 must feed themselves at the water’s edge. Areas of our beaches are temporarily closed to protect these endangered lives. Let’s be kind & decent & protect them!

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2 years

7 Piping Plover facts for New Yorkers : 1. They don’t run back & forth in groups, those are Sanderlings. 2. They don’t attack you. Those are terns & don’t “attack” either, they’re just very nest protective. Imagine someone coming into your house & going near your babies. (1)

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1 year

Piping plover chick runs along the shore. We can be a city that looks out for the most vulnerable. We can be a city that protects an endangered species. We can be a city that serves as an example for urban wildlife protection. But will we? Join us to help #protecttheplovers 💪🏽💪🏽

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2 years

Piping Plover chicks need your help. Very few survive. We must reverse this trend. Setting aside some beach for their families is the least we can do. Join us! #protecttheplovers

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3 months

How it started (2022) / how it’s going (2024) - this is Petrie! Seen here banded in 2022 as a young chick by NJ Fish & Wildlife in Barnegat Light, NJ & this summer at Breezy Point Tip, as a papa, with chicks! 🧵

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2 years

Protect me. 📷: @4binator

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1 year

Clark Kent’s not so tiny baby. So much love for this little one! Photographed by our volunteer @jacquelineUWS

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7 months

No foolin’ - NO 🐕 on NYC beaches during the breeding season. But why ??? Leashed and off leash dogs can cause unintended harm to shorebirds & their nests. Dogs can injure or kill shorebirds and their chicks, & have caused nest abandonment. This all comes with hefty fines too…

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1 year

We can’t keep the secret any longer, our work to protect NYC’s piping plovers will be featured in the new Christian Cooper @natgeowild show, ‘Extraordinary Birder’! The NYC episode airs 6/24 at 10pm on @natgeowild OR you can stream on @DisneyPlus / @hulu beginning tomorrow! (1)

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@NycPlover

2 years

Most Piping Plover chicks don’t survive more than a couple days. Predators like cats & raccoons, clueless humans, off leash dogs, drones & flooding are all major threats in NYC. We must do more to protect them if this endangered species has a fighting chance. #protecttheplovers

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@NycPlover

2 years

The most vulnerable being on the Rockaway Peninsula. Tiny Piping Plover chicks need space, protection & uninterrupted access to the ocean’s edge to feed. For the first 30 days of their lives, they can’t fly. Most die in NYC. Let’s be good people and change that. 📷 @4binator

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@NycPlover

1 year

Fireworks kill. If you hear or see fireworks near our NYC beaches this week, take action! Fort Tilden, Riis, Breezy Point Tip (ocean or bay beaches) - call @GatewayNPS @usparkpolicepio Dispatch - (718) 354-4700 Rockaway Beach including endangered species nesting area, call 911

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@NycPlover

4 months

Piping Plovers are fiercely competitive & territorial birds. They compete with other Plovers and American Oystercatchers, and pretty much any bird of any size that flies over their turf. Narrowing beaches & more and more people on the sand leads to more competition, …

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@NycPlover

1 year

Hi. This tiny endangered shorebird is under threat in our city. Join us to help protect them. Let’s be the society that looks out for the most vulnerable, not just for ourselves. Join us! #protectendangeredspecies #protecttheplovers #esaat50

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2 years

My life matters & I’m worth fighting for. From predation to climate change, Piping Plover chicks face a steep climb to survival. This season was one of the most difficult because of us humans. Nest vandalism & misplaced vitriol puts this endangered species in great peril. (1)

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