Orange beak with black tip. Atlantic coast piping plovers winter along the coasts of the southeastern U.S., the Gulf of Mexico, and the Bahamas and West Indies. In spring, they migrate to breeding areas along the eastern coast of North America from North Carolina to Newfoundland and southeastern Quebec.
Eggs are sand-colored and speckled.
The nests that they create are merely shallow depressions that are often lined with pieces of pebbles or shell. Their eggs blend perfectly with the surrounding sand or cobblestones. The adults, both the male and female, incubate the eggs, and about 4 weeks later, the chicks hatch. Chick is light colored and downy with orange legs and a black bill. It lacks the black neck band and forehead stripe of the adult.