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The scientific name for the piping plover is Charadris Melodus. The Piping Plover is a small and skinny sandy colored bird. The bird kingdom is Anamalia and it is a Vertebrate, and its family is Charadridae. The adult piping plover has yellow-orange legs, a black band across the forehead going from eye to eye, and a black ring around the base of its neck. "The piping plover nest on coastal beaches, sandflats at the of sand spits and barrier islands, gently sloped foredunes, sparsely vegetated dunes, and washover areas cut into or between dunes (All About Piping Plover 1)." The piping plover do their breeding in late March or early April. Piping plovers lay 4 white eggs with dark spots on them in shallow sand/gravel or cobble beaches. The mom and dad piping plover take turns caring for the chicks. It takes the egg about 25 days to hatch and then it takes about 21 days for the chicks to fly, walk and feed it. The piping plover eats along the beaches and intertidal mud and sand flats. The piping plover's primary prey are worms, various crustaceans, insects, and bivalve mollusks. Piping plovers communicate with each other by using bell-like whistling to each other but the other bird hears the noise before they see the bird. Piping plover range from lake in interior Canada and Newfoundland and south along the Atlantic coast to, rarely to the Carolinas. Also, the piping plover spend winters on the Atlantic Coast, the northern Great Plains, and Great Lake. Also, piping plovers spends their winter in the United States from North Carolina to Texas. And they also winter along the eastern coast of Mexico and on Caribbean Island from Barbados to Cuba and the Bahamas. The piping plover is threatened in the northern Great Plains and along the Atlantic coast population and the population in the Great Lake is endangered. At the last breeding census that was taken in 1996, the northern Great Plains had about 1,398 breeding pairs, the Great Lakes had about 32 breeding pairs, and the Atlantic Coast had about 1372 breeding pairs. The Piping Plover is an endangered/threatened species in today's population. The Federal Government as an endangered species listed it in the year 1986. Delaware Department of Natural Resources categorizes the Piping Plover as extremely rare within the state of Delaware. The reason that the piping plover is a very rare is because there are factors that make it difficult for them to spread throughout its range. For example, people and vehicles that walks and rides on the beaches and is destroying piping plovers' their nests. With the people on the beaches having food, there is an increase in the number of predators like raccoons, foxes, and skunk that come on the beach and eat plover eggs and chicks. Next, pets like dogs may harass or the kill the bird. Also, the disturbance can cause the parents to leave their nest and neglect their eggs or chicks in the nest, so sun and predators will kill the chicks or eggs. Also, the water level along major rivers may change, killing chicks in neat on the bank. We can protect the Piping Plover in the future we should have a high regard for fenced areas and area posted for protection for wildlife. Also, don't loiter around a piping plover's nest. Additionally, if pets are allowed on a beach, keep a leash on them and keep cats off the beach. And when your are on the beach, do not leave your trash because it will attract predators and the predators are more than likely to dig up the piping plover eggs or chick and eat them. Reference	Dutch
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