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

By Lester Graham, Michigan Public The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes ...

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

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

She’s worked for decades to save the Great Lakes piping plover. She recently spoke in Michigan about the decline of the piping plover population, which by the mid-1980s was almost wiped out.

“I feel ecstatic,” said Jillian Farkas, the Great Lakes piping plover coordinator at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, who noted that in 2020, only 87 wild chicks survived to become fledglings.

Record or near-record water levels predicted for the Great Lakes this summer mean less shoreline than usual. And that's bad news for an endangered species reliant upon that shoreline: piping plovers.

Birding enthusiasts look for Monty and Rose, the endangered Great Lakes piping plovers who became the first pair to nest successfully in Chicago in decades, at Montrose Beach on April 26, 2021.

The Great Lakes piping plover was on the verge of extinction when it was added to the endangered species list in 1985. At one point, the population was estimated between 12 and 17 nesting pairs.

The Great Lakes Piping Plover Conservation Team says one of the birds they track has survived another year migrating between Michigan and Florida despite suffering a broken leg.

An appealing little bird, the size of a sparrow and colored like the sand it nests in, has a better chance of persisting on the eastern Great Lakes thanks to the efforts of ESF researchers and their ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — It was a banner year for the Great Lakes piping plover. Audubon Great Lakes reports 150 chicks have survived the fledgling process, the largest number since the bird ...