Piping Plover with Dying Young

Piping Plover with Dying Young

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An endangered Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus melodus) adult tries to protect its dying chick from other plovers by standing over it on Iles de la Madeleine (Magdalen Islands), Quebec

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