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

By Lester Graham, Michigan Public The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes ...

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 ...

She’s worked for decades to save the Great Lakes piping plover. She recently spoke in Michigan about the decline of the piping plover population, which by the mid-1980s was almost wiped out.

A tattoo of Rose, an endangered Great Lakes piping plover, is inked on the leg of Dori Levine, a volunteer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as she observes Rose and her mate, Monty, with ...

Birding enthusiasts look for Monty and Rose, the endangered Great Lakes piping plovers who became the first pair to nest successfully in Chicago in decades, at Montrose Beach on April 26, 2021.

Record or near-record water levels predicted for the Great Lakes this summer mean less shoreline than usual. And that's bad news for an endangered species reliant upon that shoreline: piping plovers.

Great Lakes piping plover prints are along the beach at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on May 4, 2022. Plovers return to lakeshore each year to mate and raise their young.

The Great Lakes Piping Plover Conservation Team says one of the birds they track has survived another year migrating between Michigan and Florida despite suffering a broken leg.

An appealing little bird, the size of a sparrow and colored like the sand it nests in, has a better chance of persisting on the eastern Great Lakes thanks to the efforts of ESF researchers and their ...

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 ...