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Their story was filled with drama, anchored by hope and, depending on who you asked, one ultimately about love. But it was never going to last forever. Monty, one half of Chicago’s endangered Great ...

Bird watchers are cautiously optimistic about seeing endangered piping plovers again this spring in Presque Isle State Park. The small migratory shore birds are starting to rediscover the Gull Point ...

PELLSTON, MI – Scientists and students at the University of Michigan Biological Station will host a public open house event when visitors can learn about ongoing scientific studies there, including a ...

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 ...

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Eden Essex and her partner, Daniel Eastman, have long dedicated Saturday evenings throughout the summer to their “date night with the plovers.” As the birds’ monitors, they regularly don bright orange ...

While challenges lie ahead for three piping plover chicks hatched last week along Lake Michigan in Waukegan, the kids are doing all right, dedicated observers say. That's a good sign for the comeback ...

Thanks to their sand-colored plumage and stop-and-go dashes across dunes, piping plovers are usually identified by their bell-like whistles before they're seen. But these birds' camouflage techniques ...