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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

While no longer with us, Clark Kent, continues to power our work to protect New York’s endangered species. We will never forget you, Clark, and each and every plover that has touched down on our city’s beaches. We will never stop. 🩵 📷: Benjamin Forbes

Piping plover on sandy beach, backlit orange from sunrise with arriving foamy surf

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today, the Trump administration’s unprecedented move to strip imperiled species of protections for the places where they live went into effect. American wildlife including Florida manatees, grizzlies, salmon and piping plovers all face a new threat to their survival.

Piping plover fledgling runs along sandy beach

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We are New Yorkers, always. ♥️ 📷: Benjamin Forbes

Piping plover adult on muted tan beach covered with shells, with NYC skyline and Empire State Building in background

Small piping plover with ocean and skyline from New York City and 1 World Trade Center in background

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Heartthrob! This beautiful plover chick hatched July 2nd on the busiest Fort Tilden beach. Sadly, their two siblings didn’t survive but we have all the feels & hopes - for this little intrepid survivor.

Young piping plover chick with white and tan feathers, black beak and large black eye

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Piping Plover chicks & fledglings from Breezy Point to Far Rockaway have us jumping for joy. Give them & their families plenty of space, no 🐕, follow posted rules & carry out your trash! Thank you! Together we will defend & protect NYC’s endangered species! 📷: Benjamin Forbes 🎶: House of Pain

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Here’s to all the plover dads this Father’s Day! You protect your territories, partners and broods, and remind us about resilience, determination, and love. We hold in our hearts one very special plover dad, Clark Kent.

Gray and white piping plover on a sandy beach

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It’s American Oystercatcher Day! Striking, boisterous, & fascinating, they make awesome ambassadors for our coastal ecosystems, we are grateful to see them along our city beaches. They are great parents too. Just like the plovers - & terns & skimmers - they need protection! #birds #birdoftheday

Adult American oystercatcher with black head and bright orange bill, pink/orange legs and yellow eyes against beach grass and blue sky on a sandy beach

Adult American oystercatcher with black head and bright orange bill, pink/orange legs and yellow eyes on a sandy beach with two small oystercatcher chicks, gray and white

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Hi all, please follow us on Instagram for more updates & photos. We appreciate our 500+ Bluesky followers but haven’t been able to grow beyond that despite our best efforts, and your suggestions. Hope you’ll follow us here: www.instagram.com/nycploverpro... Thank you! ❤️

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

It’s World Migratory Bird Day, & as many mark the occasion by looking at birds, here’s to the birds as they look at us. Spending time w/ plovers, we see these intelligent sentient beings examining us, which helps us to understand & respect our place in their world and not just the other way around.

Small white and gray, with black brow & collar, Piping Plover on sandy beach, amidst green beach grass

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

They are New Yorkers too! And, we must do everything we can to protect this intrepid endangered species. Here’s a few important tips: Please no dogs on New York City beaches - or any beaches where Piping Plovers & other beach-nesting birds nest; no kites or drones; & no e-bikes.

Small gray & white Piping Plover, with orange legs and a black and orange beak, sits atop shell-covered beach slope with Brooklyn and Manhattan skyline and outline of the Empire State Building, and soft clouds above, against light blue sky

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Join us Thursday May 7 w/ some fine folks! Register here: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Last call to register for our new volunteer training this weekend! Saturday at 9:30am. In-person at Fort Tilden w/ breakfast + lunch provided. Join us! Register here: shorturl.at/1g6W7

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New Volunteer Training · Luma

A mandatory training for anyone who is interested in volunteering with the Plover Project! We will teach you everything you need to know about helping our…

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Your voices have been heard! The vote has been pulled for today. Thousands of calls were placed to urge representatives to vote NO on this pro-extinction bill - HR 1897. This is a massive win for endangered species & wildlife BUT it could come back again so we must keep thr pressure on.

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This is it. Call this morning: (202) 224-3121. Ask to be transferred to your rep and ask them to VOTE NO ON HR 1897.

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🚨WEDNESDAY🚨 Join us! RSVP @ link in bio! 🐦 💕

Piping Plover on sandy beach, with seaweed and wrack, in winter plumage, looking back at camera

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy 5th Anniversary, NYC Plover Project! ❤️ In March 2021, we were an Instagram account with a few followers & a dream. A dream, and a promise, to protect this intrepid endangered species - every bit New Yorker as the rest of us - with all our might. This plover was our first post.

Photo of a piping plover on a beach, buff gray back and wings, with white undersides. Orange legs and beak with the tip of the beak, black. A black collar matches and black brow & large jewel black eyes.

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Today is #worldwildlifeday. In 1973, UN/CITES adopted this day to celebrate & raise awareness for the world’s fauna and flora. We especially honor all the threatened & endangered species and the special humans working on their behalf.

Piping Plover chick on beach probing seaweed and a single small plant for insects.

Piping Plover chick on beach probing seaweed
alongside a small plant; green grass and blue sky is blurred in the distance

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Snow ❄️ is coming to NYC & much of the nation … but so are the plovers! In less than two months, the first Piping Plovers will appear on our NYC beaches. While we love the ❄️, many of us are already busy planning & getting ready for the VIPs’ arrivals!

Single Piping Plover running on the sand amidst sea foam from a wave and a light blue backdrop of ocean water

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Sanderlings! This remarkable bird is a true long-distance athlete- some flying 6,000 miles each way on migration. Resilient, fierce & cold defiant, you may see them running in flocks at the water’s edge. And no, (again), they aren’t plovers! 😉

Single white and grey Sanderling on a ridged tidal flat

Two sanderlings - white and gray, with one preening the other’s head, in a shallow tidal pool

One white and gray sanderling looking back at the camera on a sandy beach covered with broken shells

Range map for Sanderling from Cornell Ornithology Lab showing the breeding ground in Northern Canada, a large geographic area showing migration grounds across U.S. and Canada, and a narrow band of coastline across the Atlantic and Gulf coasts showing wintering / non breeding range

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

It may be gray & cold in NYC, but we are thinking about the wintering Piping Plovers, Sanderlings, & American Oystercatcher in Cedar Key, Florida. Pat Leary caught this spectacular image. 🌞

Piping Plovers, Sanderlings and a larger American Oystercatcher roost together on a shell shoal, with blue water surrounding them.

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Piping Plover parents share incubating & chick rearing duties, watching & protecting their young ones around the clock. This family lived on the busy beaches of Breezy Point Tip. Only one of their brood survived to become a fledgling. We are working hard with NYC Parks & National Park Service …

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Our final ask. Thank you to everyone who has given, and for those who have not, it is not too late. This past year, we saw threats to plovers from our beaches to the halls of Congress. Our work has never been more urgent. If you are on the fence about giving, now is the time.

Piping Plover on the ridge of a beach, with broken shells, dried seaweed and straw, looking at the camera; the Coney Island boardwalk and buildings in the background, with the top of the Verrazzano Bridge also visibile

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

New piece aurhored by @allieri.bsky.social in The Ornithologist. Please have a read, comment & share. Also consider subscribing to this excellent new publication! theornithologist.org/the-endanger...

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The Endangered Species Act Under Threat: Why It Still Matters for Birds

What happens to birds when the law designed to protect them is itself under threat?

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Fifty-two years ago, President Richard Nixon signed into law the most important wildlife protection law in the world. The Endangered Species Act works, having saved 99% of the species under its protection from extinction. It is also extremely popular, w/ 9 out of 10 Americans supporting the law.

Piping Plover on a beach with people in the background

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

A pair of Sanderlings fly together in the ❄️ over the icy-cold surf at Breezy Point. Often confused with Piping Plovers, Sanderlings hang in flocks and run quickly back and forth with the waves. They are also on our city beaches in the winter months, while plovers are not.

Pair of Sanderlings overlap one another in flight in the snow above the waves of the Atlantic

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Thank you to everyone who submitted comments these past days. Our fight to defend NYC’s endangered species is far from over. We will never give up on plovers. We will never give up on the Endangered Species Act. And, we know you’re with us every step of the way. We will not stop.

Two young Piping Plover chicks drinking rainwater from a clam shell on a sandy beach.

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

This is it! Final 4 hours to submit comment. Please invest 10 minutes to protect wildlife and help stop the destruction of the Endangered Species Act! Go to link below — *ESA Regs Comment Guide* with talking points & direct links to comment. shorturl.at/5nnGC

Piping Plover adult and chick on a beach with urgent text to submit comment

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Endangered Species Act Under Threat! Final hours to comment! Endangered Species Act regulations comment period ends Monday 12/22 at 11:59 pm ET. Easy-to-use comment guide with direct links to comment: shorturl.at/NL623

Young back-lit Piping Plover chick running on sunlit beach, with text alerting people to imminent regulations comment deadline

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

🐺 🐦 ACTION NEEDED TODAY ! CALL YOUR HOUSE REP: NO ON HR 845! Link in bio to find your rep. or house.gov or call switchboard at (202) 224-3121 & ask to be transferred to your rep. PLEASE ☎️ today!

Gray Wolf and Piping Plover on blue background

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

TOMORROW! Please do not miss. “BEARS, WOLVES & PLOVERS: Protecting Iconic Species” 7 pm ET Zoom webinar Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Gray Wolf, Grizzly Bear & Piping Plover frame a gray background with black text and logos for Wyoming Wildlife Advocates, Wolf Conservation Center & NYC Plover Project

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Because of your generosity, we met and exceeded our #GivingTuesday match and goal. Nearly 100 new donors gave to help support our work connecting w/ NYC public school children, diverse communities of our city, & scores of beach-going New Yorkers about the awesome shorebirds that call our city home.

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Today and everyday, we share stories and images of the plovers that call New York City home. Please help us send a message to the world that this young Piping Plover — one of a population of no more than 8,000 globally — will never be alone.

Very young and tiny Piping Plover chick on a beach with a brilliant green and blue pastel background.

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Every gift that you make today will be DOUBLED. Thanks to a few very special supporters, every dollar up to $12,500 will be matched. So, please make a tax-deductible gift before midnight to help protect NYC’s endangered species. 🧵

Piping plover adult and chick with one more chick being incubated below the parent. Beach grass and shells frame the image of the beach scene.

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

We are kicking off #givingtuesday early! Every gift you make will be matched up to $12,500, effectively doubling your impact to protect NYC’s endangered species! Please make a donation today: give.nycploverproject.org/campaign/747... 🩵

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Thank you to our supporters, the many New Yorkers who give Piping Plovers & other fragile beach-nesting birds the space to survive, our amazing volunteers and staff, our agency & community partners, donors & our social media followers. 🧵

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

One week of headlines. And these are just a few of them! The most important & effective global endangered species law - and multiple landmark environmental laws in the U.S. - are under attack.

Piping Plover on shore with Coney Island, Brooklyn in the background. Screenshots of recent news headlines about the many attacks on the Endangered Species Act & wetlands and clean water laws in foreground, with a call out in text to protect these environmental laws.

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

READ + LEARN + SHARE + COMMENT —> DEFEND! Together, we will defend our most important wildlife protection law! JOIN US! 💪🏽💪🏽❤️‍🔥 Comment here: shorturl.at/MuuFx #birds #addbirder

Action alert with photo of Piping Plover.

Piping Plover at bottom with white text on red background.

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The Trump Administration is looking to decimate the Endangered Species Act. Proposed changes would: - LIMIT new species from being listed - REMOVE protections for federally-threatened species like Piping Plovers - REDUCE critical habitat protections

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Hey @bsky.app - we’ve been posting consistently since y’all came online — photos, video & uplifting content. We are grateful for our followers but still have relatively few. What are we doing wrong? Thinking of leaving the app. So @bsky.app @support.bsky.team — & BlueSky users - what do you say?

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The last Piping Plover of 2025 passing through New York? Possibly. This traveler coming from out east or further north, was spotted earlier this week at Breezy Point Tip. Piping Plovers — and other migratory shorebirds — travel long ways each fall & spring.

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

As you read this, thousands of Piping Plovers are in the wintering locales, like this beautiful one in Key Biscayne, near Miami. From South Carolina, to both coasts of Florida and the spectacular Gulf of Mexico sands along Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and the Great Coastal Bend of Texas, …

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Day late? No way! Sure, yesterday was #worldmigratorybirdday but with birds in migration literally any time you read this, someplace in the world, we’d argue that everyday is world migratory bird day. Shout out to our OGs, our day ones, our kings & queens … the Piping Plovers.

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

New Substack - Clark’s Final Migration Read & subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/chrisall...

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

New Substack - Clark’s Final Migration Read & subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/chrisall...

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Today, we lost a great. Few humans inspire us, challenge us & remind us of the critical importance of our work to protect other species like Dr. Jane Goodall. We celebrate her life today and will recommit to the hard work we have yet to do. Thank you, Dr. Goodall.

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

New Yorkers. 100%. Today. Every day. ❤️ 📷: Benjamin Forbes

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Hey everyone! New Substack! from NYC Plover Project Founder & Director Chris Allieri —> Subscribe & follow along today! substack.com/@chrisallier...

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Chris Allieri | Substack

Executive Director & Founder, NYC Plover Project

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Piping Plover, ready for departure, & the NYC Ferry ⛴️ 💙 🐦

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