It started in late July, when the breeding shorebirds of the treeless Arctic tundra begin streaming south fanning out across North America. The wading birds characterized as shorebirds are a diverse ...

WEST BARNSTABLE — Whenever he gets a chance, one of Paul Crosson's favorite things to do is to go to work, counting shorebirds. "Any excuse to go birding," he said as his truck bounced, soft-tired, ...

Piping plovers are territorial and don’t nest close together, but often spread out across a long stretch of beach. With fluffy gray and white feathers, short stature, and an affinity for tire tracks, ...

Each summer, like clockwork, thousands of whimbrels, an elegant shorebird with a long, thin beak, hatch along the Arctic tundra. Their parents soon depart, and when the hatchlings are old enough, they ...

Piping plovers have returned to the Cape Cod National Seashore, the first arrivals having been spotted at the Armstrong dune shack and Head of the Meadow beach areas in Truro. They are actively ...

High tide had come to Wellfleet Bay, on Cape Cod’s inner shore. It was mid-May, the peak of spring bird migration, and while the upland forests were ringing with the songs of newly arrived orioles and ...