Information about the piping plover and Migratory Bird Treaty Centennial.

Vicci Weeks




Learn more about this endangered species that can be spotted on Great Lakes
beaches.



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The piping plover: April's Migratory Bird Treaty Centennial featured bird



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31/piping-plover-small_original.jpg> If you're heading to a Lake Michigan,
Huron or Superior beach this summer, you may encounter one of Michigan's
endangered species: the piping plover. These diminutive brown and white
birds blend in easily with Michigan's sandy beaches. The dark brown bands
across its neck and forehead help to camouflage the bird further by
mimicking pebbles and debris on the beach.

In mid to late April and early May, piping plovers begin arriving on
Michigan's shorelines from their Atlantic and Gulf Coast wintering grounds.
The males quickly begin the business of attracting a mate with elaborate
flights, tail fanning and even a dance!

Once mating has occurred, the female lays four small, spotted eggs in the
sandy, pebbly nest on the ground that her mate created as part of his
courtship display. The young hatch about three and a half weeks later and
stay close to their parents as they grow. They learn to fly after about one
month of age.

Adult birds protect their young from predators by feigning a broken wing to
lure predators away from their chicks while the chicks sit motionless in the
sand. Sometimes the chicks will even take to the water and swim away from
predators. Adults don't swim, but do wade in the water looking for food.

The Great Lakes population of piping plovers has declined over the last
several decades due to habitat destruction from human and commercial
development and human encroachment on the piping plovers' nesting grounds.
Nests sometimes are inadvertently crushed by people and pets. Another factor
leading to the decline of the piping plover is the increase of
human-tolerant predators like gulls, raccoons, feral cats and skunks.

In places where piping plovers are nesting, stretches of beach often are
closed to visitors to protect the nests and young birds. Hundreds of people
volunteer to guard piping plover nests in the Great Lakes region, educating
visitors and chasing off gulls and other predators to help boost populations
of the piping plover.

Today, the Great Lakes region boasts about 70 pairs of piping plovers. In
1986, when piping plovers were listed as federally endangered, there were
only 13 pairs.  International cooperation between Mexico (wintering grounds)
and Canada (North Atlantic breeding grounds) also helps to keep populations
growing.

This year marks the centennial of the Convention between the United States
and Great Britain (for Canada) for the Protection of Migratory Birds (also
called the Migratory Bird Treaty), signed on Aug. 16, 1916. Three other
treaties were signed shortly thereafter with Japan, Russia and Mexico. The
Migratory Bird Treaty, the three other treaties signed later, and the
Migratory Bird Treaty Act form the cornerstones of efforts to conserve birds
that migrate across international borders.

The 2016 Migratory Bird Treaty Centennial celebration will include monthly
featured bird stories to our DNR Wildlife Viewing email subscribers,
celebration events including a weekend of bird-based programming at state
parks and visitor centers June 24-26, an education program for schools and
conservation groups, and more.

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