Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO (WGN) – A Piping Plover plan has hatched at Montrose Beach. “They’re called Piping Plovers for a reason,” birder and ...

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MILFORD – Matt Joyce spends much of his time on a stretch of beach that didn’t even exist 40 years ago. His mission: to monitor and protect the piping plovers that nest on the sandbar located at ...

PELLSTON, MI – Newly hatched Great Lakes piping plovers are all feet and fluff. Under a heat lamp in a small laboratory in northern Michigan, one pillowy, little fuzzball of a bird pattered around ...

Lyra Brennan stood on a near-empty beach in Barnstable, scanning the sand for adult piping plovers and their newborn chicks. A plover chick is about the size of a cotton ball, and the same color as ...

The Great Lakes piping plover population has reached a record high of 88 nesting pairs. This is a significant increase from the 12 to 17 pairs recorded in 1990, according to a University of Michigan ...

Pepper and Blaze — the captive-reared, federally endangered piping plover chicks released on a Lake County beach in 2023 — are back in Waukegan for the second year as breeding adults and the pair is ...

A 16-year-old piping plover, known as Gabby, has hatched two more chicks at Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore, bringing her lifetime total to 37. Gabby, officially designated "Of,gb:X,Y," is the oldest ...

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