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BirdsSensitive species
A pale beach plover nesting again on the Indiana Dunes lakeshore under close guard.
Field facts
HabitatOpen sand beaches
RangeLake Michigan shoreline
When to lookApril to August
StatusFederally endangered (Indiana DNR / IUCN Red List)
Look-alikesSemipalmated plover — darker back
Field note: Great Lakes piping plovers number only a few dozen pairs in total.
Lesson
Watching responsibly
Obey all beach closures and keep dogs off nesting beaches entirely.
This species is treated as sensitive: locations are generalised to county level and never routed to directly.
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