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NYC Plover Project

@nycploverproject.bsky.social

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New Yorkers working to fiercely protect endangered Piping Plovers & other shorebirds nesting on our city’s beaches • join us to #protecttheplovers • all the links: https://linktr.ee/nycploverproject

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 8d

🎶: Cocteau Twins ❤️

NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 8d

Let’s give them space, keep our 🦮 leashed, walk/jog around flocks and not through them, and keep vehicles off the beaches where birds are roosting. Let’s make NYC a great place for all species!

📹: Benjamin Forbes

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 14d

📷: Chris Allieri, Key Biscayne, Florida, September 2024

NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 14d

… to the Yucatán and Cuba, the Bahamas & Turks & Caicos, Piping Plovers spend up to 9 months of their year! We look forward to partnering with and supporting efforts in these locales to engage communities and protect plovers — and other shorebirds, too!

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 14d

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 · 20d

Special shoutout to the 2025 fledglings — born this summer — who just completed their first fall migrations!

NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 21d

The one federally-listed migratory bird species, protected under the Endangered Species Act, nesting on our city beaches, all Piping Plovers migrate & many travel 1,000 miles or more 2X each year!

Photos:
(1) Winston Qin
(2) Michelle Talich
(3) Debra Vilen
(4) Cindy Rosin

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 21d

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 · 28d

New Substack - Clark’s Final Migration

Read & subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/chrisall...

NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · 28d

New Substack - Clark’s Final Migration

Read & subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/chrisall...

NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · Oct 2

“Only if we can understand, can we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.”

photo: Vincent Camel

NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · Oct 2

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 · Sep 26

Hi!
We launched a Substack!
Please subscribe & share!
open.substack.com/pub/chrisall...

Plover | Chris Allieri | Substack

Stories of the Piping Plover and the massive effort to thwart their extinction. Click to read Plover, by Chris Allieri, a Substack publication. Launched 20 days ago.

open.substack.com

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · Sep 11

New Yorkers. 100%. Today. Every day. ❤️

📷: Benjamin Forbes

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · Sep 7

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

Chris Allieri | Substack

Executive Director & Founder, NYC Plover Project

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · Aug 29

Please give the birds space — walk or jog AROUND flocks and NOT THROUGH them; no dogs on the beach whatsoever; no drones, bikes, fires, fireworks or kites…& for your own safety, only swim by a lifeguard. Together, let’s make this a better city for all species!

🍎 ❤️ 🐦

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · Aug 29

It’s Labor Day Weekend, y’all! While many Piping Plovers have left to head south for the winter months, there’s still fledgling & adult plovers, oystercatchers, terns and skimmers with us, & many other shorebird species passing through & stopping off on their LONG migrations. So what does that mean?

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · Aug 20

View from the VIP departures lounge 😍

#iykyk

📷: Chris Allieri, Breezy Point Tip, 8|17|25

NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · Aug 1

please DO NOT bring dogs to the beach; never ride an e-bike on the beach; & always give shorebirds space as they feed & rest (you too, photographers & birders!)

Thank you!

📷: Chris Allieri, 7/30/25, Breezy Point Tip

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · Aug 1

It’s fall migration! So, if you see shorebird flocks at the edge of the water, please walk around groups of birds — and not through them (there’s often migratory shorebirds amongst the gulls, who deserve our respect too!); …

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · Aug 1

Their flights — which can be 1,000 miles or more — are fraught with challenges, so we must do everything we can so that they can depart as strong as possible.

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NYC Plover Project @nycploverproject.bsky.social · Aug 1

Hanging with the big kids! One of these birds is about to head off on their first migration! We hold every Piping Plover in our hearts — especially the newest fledglings — as they head off on their perilous journeys.

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