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 ...

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

A 16-year-old piping plover, known as Gabby, has hatched two more chicks at Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore, bringing her lifetime total to 37. Gabby, officially designated "Of,gb:X,Y," is the oldest ...

Piping plovers are returning to the Nantucket Sound beaches in some of the largest numbers in years. The arrival ...

EMPIRE, MI -- A sure sign of warmer days ahead are Michigan’s beloved shorebird returning. The tiny but mighty Great Lakes piping plover arrived on Michigan’s shorelines this week. The Great Lakes ...

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It's almost that time of year again when birders flock to Montrose Beach. The peak of migration season is a couple weeks away. But one popular bird has already made an appearance — as two piping ...

Their story was filled with drama, anchored by hope and, depending on who you asked, one ultimately about love. But it was ...

Following the migration of the plovers are 21 fourth-graders from Ocean City Intermediate School, who on Tuesday traveled south with their teacher and several parents to visit the beach where one pair ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the oldest-known endangered piping plovers at Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore increased her impressive breeding record ...