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

Piping plovers have made a remarkable recovery in Massachusetts. But the tiny, threatened shorebird is declining in other ...

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

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

The three new piping plover chicks born at Montrose Beach have been named in true Chicago fashion: Bean, El and Ferris. Bean is named after the Cloud Gate sculpture, colloquially called “The Bean,” in ...

This year, the names represent iconic Chicago landmarks woven into the city’s fabric and known to all visitors of our beloved ...

Officials discovered a piping plover nestled on a fireworks launchpoint before the show was about to begin, Montauk officials ...

Some baby birds just hatched at Montrose Beach, and their names are about as Chicago as it gets. Block Club Chicago reporter ...

By Jack Motz and Michelle Trauring The Montauk Chamber of Commerce delayed — and ultimately canceled — its annual “Stars Over ...

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

The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife urges beachgoers to "share the shore" during the busy Fourth of July ...

The education efforts have clearly paid off, as the growing numbers of plovers in Maine demonstrate. After talking with some ...