It's almost that time of year again when birders flock to Montrose Beach. The peak of migration season is a couple weeks away ...

Two male piping plovers, Pippin and Uncle Larry, were spotted Friday at Montrose Beach, according to Chicago Piping Plovers, ...

MIGRATION: Northward migration to breeding grounds occurs ... POPULATION TREND: The population of the piping plover first plummeted in the late 19th century due to hunting. With the Migratory Bird ...

(WOOD) — One of the nation’s leading experts on a critically endangered bird says potential federal spending cuts could spell doom for the Great Lakes piping plover. Francie Cuthbert ...

The Piping Plover vanished from Chicago and Cook County in 1948. Nearly extinct from the region, the bird was declared federally endangered in the 1980s. In 2019, a pair of Piping Plovers began ...

Two male piping plovers were spotted Friday at Montrose Beach, according to Chicago Piping Plovers, an organization dedicated ...