The giant piping plover has a name.

After poring over 279 names submitted by 182 people, the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership picked a name for its 4-foot piping plover.

Pebbles.

The winning name was submitted by two people, one from Pleasantville, N.J., the other from Missouri Valley, Iowa.

"We had submissions from 18 states and six (Canadian) provinces, the furthest one being from Halifax, Nova Scotia," program coordinator Mary Bomberger Brown said in a news release.

The Lincoln-based group plans to use the giant model of a piping plover to raise awareness about piping plovers and interior least terns, both of which are listed as endangered.