Piper's Mother

Piper’s Mother is a supporting character from the 2016 Disney/Pixar animated short Piper. She is an adult sandpiper serving as the mother of Piper.
==Background==
===Physical appearance===
Unlike her daughter, Piper's mother has the size of what a real-life adult sandpiper looks like with a long body and a pair of narrow wings. She is shown to have a plumage of white feathers around her body as well as having gray spotting on her wings as well as two medium long legs resembling that of a real sandpiper.
==Role in the short==
Piper's mother is introduced at the beginning of the short where wakes up with her daughter Piper one morning, as she sees her mother fly to the shoreline to find food for her chick. When her mother tells her to come to the shoreline to get food, Piper runs off to the shoreline so she could be fed. However, Piper's mother tells her to find her own food. As the tide rises on the shoreline, Piper's mother tells her daughter to return to dry land, but Piper suddenly becomes soaked. After being soaked, Piper's mother approaches her daughter who tells her to get her own food like she tried before, prompting her to become independent like what an adult sandpiper would do.
After Piper finally conquered her hydrophobia and thanks the tiny hermit crab for helping her, she then arrives back to her mother as she now gets used to water like the other sandpipers as she finds a clam and eats it. Happy that she is now satisfied with conquering her fear, Piper then gives her mother and the other sandpipers some more clams for them to eat, as she finally gets in contact with the water on the shoreline, making her mother very proud of her. That evening, Piper's mother observes her daughter grabbing a clam independently, as she happily observes her daughter that she finally conquered her fear of water. Later that night, Piper and her mother sleep together as Piper feels satisfied with herself in conquering her fear of water.
==Trivia==
*The way Piper's mother is seen arriving towards the beach to get clams for her to eat with Piper being very far away from her mother is reminiscent to nature documentary films featuring animals due to the short itself presented in the style of a nature documentary tone.
==Gallery==
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