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Piping Plovers Could Be Harder To Find This Summer

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Bird lovers may see a lot less of the Piping Plover on beaches in Rhode Island and around New England this summer. The little black-and-white shorebirds’ winter habitat in the Bahamas was hit hard by Hurricane Matthew last year, and that may have taken a heavy toll on the birds. Piping Plovers were already considered threatened in Connecticut -- they’ve been hurt by shoreline development and careless beachgoers. But their winter vacation spot in the Bahamas has no human development, just thousands of other piping plovers from all over North America. “Hurricane Matthew went over some of the most important wintering habitat at a really vulnerable time for the birds, just as they were arriving,” said Patrick Comins with the National Audubon Society’s Connecticut Chapter. Nobody’s sure yet how many plovers died when Matthew’s 15-foot-high waves hit the beaches of the Bahamas. Audubon says about two-thirds of the birds were missing after the hurricane. There’s a possibility the storm just

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