Revisiting Chewie the Piping Plover, and Queerness in Nature

The Warblers by Birds Canada by Birds Canada

Jun 25, 202511:31Science & Medicine

While working with Piping Plovers in June of 2022, Andrea Gress and the rest of the plover team, observed a same-sex pairing between two well known plovers. It was a first for the species. But was it really? In today&apo...

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