"Piping Plover Tastes Like Chicken" goes the bumper sticker occasionally sighted on the East End of Long Island.

WSJ: Wrecked Beaches Could Aid Plovers

The piping plover is protected in many Atlantic Coast states, but the issue on Fire Island is particularly acute in the aftermath of Sandy.

WSJ: NY's Fire Island debris effort faces bird deadline

Three species the pallid sturgeon and two shorebirds, the least tern and the piping plover are listed under the Endangered Species Act.

CNN: Missouri River destiny hangs in the balance

Such flow levels were a reproductive cue for spawning fish and produced sandbars that served as vital nesting grounds for shorebirds, particularly the least tern and piping plover.

CNN: Missouri River destiny hangs in the balance

Contractor crews are scrambling to get the trash removed by the end of March, before truck access is severely restricted to protect the nesting areas of the endangered bird species known as the piping plover.

WSJ: NY's Fire Island debris effort faces bird deadline

Because Breezy Point hadn't been hit by a storm of Sandy's magnitude for decades, piping-plover habitat there had shrunk.

WSJ: Wrecked Beaches Could Aid Plovers