Fewer than 2,500 Western snowy plovers remain along the entire West Coast of the United States, and Alameda is lucky enough to host several of the threatened birds. Sharol Nelson-Embry introduces the ...

Driving is allowed on some Massachusetts beaches. In many cases, an off-road vehicle, four-wheel drive or all-wheel drive ...

When it comes to dredging area waterways and nourishing beaches, timing is everything. And with warmer weather coming earlier ...

Sammie Clark, beaver researcher with Urban Rivers joined WGN’s Evening News at 6 p.m. Tuesday to discuss the contest.

LANSING – The piping plover may have a new predator to worry about – the common grackle, which has been photographed for the first time eating eggs in a nest of the endangered migratory bird.

The work being done for the plovers is separate and unrelated to the dredged sand being pumped along the jetty walkway at Barnegat Lighthouse State Park, he noted. “The sentiment at the meeting was a ...

Wetlands and coastal habitats like mangroves, swamps, beaches, ponds and mud flats — which are “disappearing at an alarming ...

Nesting shorebirds frequent Longboat and Lido Key beaches in the spring and summer months, with the season officially ...

Want to show some love for puffins, those engaging coastal seabirds? Order a puffin license plate. “The Oregon Coast Aquarium is one of three facilities in the Pacific Northwest, and the only in the ...

Grey plovers are winter visitors to North America, where they are commonly known as black-bellied plovers. Also found on the beaches and muddy estuaries along the coast of Britain, they are an easily ...