Piping Plover females are the first to leave the Great Lakes and head south, leaving dad to finish raising the chicks.

The Great Lakes piping plover recovery effort has been ongoing since the mid-1980s when the population got as low as a dozen ...

Conservation officials confirmed this year is a record-breaking nesting season for the federally endangered shorebird.

One of the oldest piping plovers at the park, "Gabby" now has raised 37 chicks to flight. She soon will return to Georgia for ...

Some of the hottest chicks on Montrose Beach are now named El, Bean and Ferris. Why it matters: The monikers for this third ...

Great Lakes piping plover Searocket looks for food near a nest where she laid an egg at Montrose Beach on May 31, 2024, in Chicago. The Park District announced the presence of a new egg on the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Two rare coastal birds, the Piping Plover and the Brown Booby, are expected to be in Central Texas this July.

Chicago’s lakefront is famously open and free. So why is a prime section of Montrose Beach roped off every summer? Because it’s for the birds. Literally. The piping plovers. WTTW News explains.

Piping plovers are migratory birds that nest in three parts of the United States, including the shores of the Great Lakes, according to Great Lakes Piping Plovers.

Piping plovers are small migratory shorebirds with populations in the Great Lakes, Northern Great Plains and Atlantic Coast.

Piping plovers, Lueck said, are the poster species for the need to protect and restore fragile Great Lakes dune ecosystems. Having two nests in Illinois is “pretty spectacular,” she added.

But, with Montrose Beach acting as a haven, the piping plover population rebounded in 2019. They are still considered endangered, and it’s considered a success in the Great Lakes if 1.6 chicks ...