The stretch of the popular southern Ontario beach used by the endangered bird is no longer provincially protected.

Sleeping Bear Tour Co. has the only guided piping plover tours that are permitted within the national lakeshore. The ...

Once again, early bird honors go to Pippin, the unlucky-in-love bachelor who’s marking his third year at Montrose in search of a mate.

Pepper the piping plover. For the third year in a row, Pepper has returned to his summer home on Lake Michigan, having been ...

Just two weeks after Chicago saw its first sightings of the season, another plover has been spotted at Lake County’s Waukegan ...

He arrived a bit early but those who keep an eye out for cute federally endangered shorebirds in Lake County are ecstatic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 26—EMPIRE — Bird flu already claimed a bald eagle in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and researchers are watching for ...

March is the time of year when shorebird nesting season starts in full as several species select mates, build nests and raise chicks.

Local author and ornithologist Scott Weidensaul talks about the successful rebounds of local birds, like piping plovers and ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- An endangered bird chick was killed by a hawk at a Chicago beach, a local bird monitoring group announced. Chicago Piping Plovers said a piping plover named "Ferris" died just six ...

Here’s how the story of piping plovers Monty and Rose unfolded along the Lake Michigan coast — and how their legacy lives on still.