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Piping plover chick and parent on South Cape Beach.

Piping plover chick and parent on South Cape Beach.
Piping plover chick and parent on South Cape Beach.
Piping plover chick and parent on South Cape Beach.
Piping plover chick and parent on South Cape Beach.
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Sun, Ruijiao
Piping plover chick and parent on South Cape Beach.
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06/13/2021
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Caption from 2023 WHOI Wall Calendar, Front Cover:
Piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) feed on insects and small crustaceans on beaches and are considered an indicator species for beach health. This parent and chicks were photographed by MIT-WHOI graduate student Ruijiao Sun at South Cape Beach State Park on Cape Cod. Sun is a seabird ecologist who studies Antarctic seabirds and started birding locally during the pandemic. To capture this photo, she arrived at the beach before dawn, crawled to a spot where she could watch, and waited more than an hour for the birds to become accustomed to her presence.
Photo by Ruijiao Sun
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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