Chicago’s piping plover population may grow after Searocket and Imani laid their first egg of the season on the Montrose Beach Dunes shoreline Sunday morning, a little over a week since their ...

The Department of Parks and Recreation has monitored the piping plover since the 1990s. But a new neighborhood pilot program in Edgemere is trying to rope off nesting areas on the beach.

The current oldest Great Lakes Piping Plover, named Of,gb:XY or "gabbY," on the shores at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Photo by Vince Cavalieri, National Park Service. By .

Piping plover chicks stay close to an adult piping plover at Montrose Beach on July 1, 2024, in Chicago. Three of four of Imani and Searocket’s offspring have died.

Last year, 40 piping plover pairs — 80 birds — nested in the Rockaways, with 13 pairs in Edgemere, representing 33 percent of plovers on the peninsula, up from 36 pairs in the Rockaways and ...

Piping plover with chicks in Cape May, N.J. (Courtesy of Kevin Karlson) The drop in pairs was not unexpected because it followed poor productivity in 2021, Hecht said. Since piping plover chicks tend ...