Back from the Brink, Piping Plover
2017 CE • Great Lakes and Atlantic Coast
“At less than 2 ounces fully grown, plovers never made good eating for our ancestors. But the plover's delicate feathers were highly prized by 19th-century hat makers. Being ridiculously cute almost led plovers down the path of the dodo. By the early 1980s, plovers had been pushed further toward extinction by human development on their prime breeding habitats, particularly barrier beaches and dunes along the US and Canadian Atlantic Coast and in the Great Lakes region."
Frieswick, Kris. September. "The Curious Case of the Piping Plover - The Boston Globe." BostonGlobe.com. N.p., 19 Sept. 2011. Web.
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