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

As U.S. butterfly populations face declines, the John Ball Zoo has launched a program to save these insects in a race against extinction.

Some of the hottest chicks on Montrose Beach are now named El, Bean and Ferris. Why it matters: The monikers for this third ...

The Great Lakes piping plover recovery effort has been ongoing since the mid-1980s when the population got as low as a dozen ...

It's a familiar plight. Endangered bird bounces back after dwindling to dangerously low numbers — here's what's happening first appeared on The Cool Down.

One of the oldest piping plovers at the park, "Gabby" now has raised 37 chicks to flight. She soon will return to Georgia for ...

Conservation officials confirmed this year is a record-breaking nesting season for the federally endangered shorebird.

But, with Montrose Beach acting as a haven, the piping plover population rebounded in 2019. They are still considered endangered, and it’s considered a success in the Great Lakes if 1.6 chicks ...

Name Chicago's piping plover chicks Chicago's newest additions to the piping plover community need names. The parents, beloved Imani and Sea Rocket, laid their first egg of the season on the ...

The three chicks were born June 20 at Montrose Beach, the progeny of Piping Plover power couple father, Imani, and mother, Sea Rocket. The Chicago Bird Alliance, Chicago Ornithological Society, and ...

A feared invasion Perhaps nothing alarms Great Lakes ecologists more than the potential for invasive carp from Asia to establish a breeding population in the Great Lakes.

In a world where encouraging stories about conservation and the environment seem rare, it’s heartening to hear what's happened in with piping plovers in Maine.