{"id":253294,"date":"2026-07-27T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253294\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T22:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:47:10","slug":"endangered-piping-plover-returns-to-pennsylvania-after-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253294\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered piping plover returns to Pennsylvania after decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Endangered piping plover returns to Pennsylvania after decades<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe\" aria-label=\"Lori Burkholder profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe_1654041445.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Lori Burkholder\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/4f5c2ac9-974d-460c-8618-1fcbb388c0f8\" aria-label=\"Brian Roche profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4f5c2ac9-974d-460c-8618-1fcbb388c0f8_1654040425.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Brian Roche\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>ERIE, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The endangered piping plover, a small shorebird that had disappeared from Pennsylvania for more than 60 years, has officially nested in the state for 10 consecutive years.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The Pennsylvania Game Commission said the bird\u2019s only habitat in the state is at Presque Isle on Lake Erie.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Officials said staff worked for years to protect nesting areas and camouflage eggs to improve survival rates.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">To mark the occasion, the Pennsylvania House designated July 18 as Piping Plover Day.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/42326661-8f65-4eeb-aed7-bd53610d930f.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/42326661-8f65-4eeb-aed7-bd53610d930f.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Endangered piping plover returns to Pennsylvania after decades ERIE, Pa. \u2014 The endangered piping plover, a small shorebird&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108038,260,28,9183,30,9116,29,108037,103236,13820,108039],"class_list":["post-253294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-endangered-piping-plover","tag-lake-erie","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-game-commission","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-house","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-piping-plover-day","tag-piping-plover","tag-presque-isle","tag-small-shorebird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}