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 ...

Piping plovers are still flying over Duluth and Superior beaches to nest elsewhere, but their overall Great Lakes population went up significantly in 2017. The diminutive shorebirds have long since ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — It was a banner year for the Great Lakes piping plover. Audubon Great Lakes reports 150 chicks have survived the fledgling process, the largest number since the bird was ...

Newly hatched chicks from birds on the Endangered Species List are running up and down a handful of beaches in the Great Lakes region. The population is recovering from near extinction, but they’re ...

EMPIRE, MI -- The Great Lakes oldest Piping Plover is a mother again − for the 37th time. Congratulations are in order for the Piping Plover, Of,gb:X,Y, often referred to as “Gabby” in reference to ...

GREEN BAY (WLUK) – For the first time in the state of Wisconsin, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released captive-reared Great Lakes piping plovers. On July 17, four 28-day-old chicks that had ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — While conservationists have made some notable strides to save the Great Lakes piping plover, a rising threat exacerbates the challenges for the critically endangered bird.

NORTHERN MICHIGAN (WPBN/WGTU) -- Staff at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is keeping tabs on a specific bird that summers in northern Michigan. A Piping plover from northern Michigan was ...

EMPIRE, MI - Season-long success stories like this year’s record number of Great Lakes piping plover chicks are built one flight south at a time. Like the tiny-legged plover that fledged along the ...

CHARLEVOIX, Mich. — On a hot summer afternoon, campers and beachgoers flock to the Lake Michigan shoreline at Fisherman’s Island State Park. The last thing you see before you hit the beach is a sign ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — One plucky, little bird is doing her part to keep her species alive. The Great Lakes Piping Plover Conservation Team says one of the birds they track has survived another ...

Mikayala Erickson, right, of the St. Louis River Alliance, holds a decoy of a piping plover as she looks through a spotting scope next to Maggie Salwei as both watch for plovers on a nesting area on ...