In the words of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the piping plover is "an indicator of the health of the fragile beach ...

“The flight pattern you’ll typically see from our Gulfstream IV is a circumnavigation of the storm itself, as well as sampling of the atmosphere around and ahead of the storm,” Underwood said.

Sleeping Bear Dunes piping plover fledglings successfully make 1,200-mile flight to wintering grounds. Updated: Aug. 13, 2021, 2:28 p.m.

A piping plover nesting at Montrose beach, one of 70 or so breeding pairs in the Midwest. Fran Morel Share Even birds get tired. After a long dark flight over Lake Michigan — most songbirds ...

One of two piping plover chicks takes flight at Montrose Beach over the weekend. Provided by Tamima Itani Share We have lift off. The endangered piping plover chicks — whose presence helped ...

Those flight patterns may look like boxes or stars, but they serve specific purposes for each individual storm. Hurricane hunters don’t fly away from these storms like commercial airlines do.