Delaware’s Nesting Piping Plovers Show Resilience in the Face of Overall Declines Along the East Coast

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Mathew Schwartz

The endangered shorebirds, Piping Plovers, suffer from habitat loss, an increase in predators and the rise in public use of beaches. But as WHYY's Zoe Read reports, the bird population in 2022 grew along the Delaware shoreline.

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(Original air-date: 2/3/23)

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Zoë Read is WHYY’s watershed reporter. She joined WHYY in 2015 as a multimedia reporter covering Delaware news for the web and FM.