We wait with bated breath to see if the next generation of Great Lakes piping plovers will hatch. David Gunkel is keeping an ...

and piping plovers are only one of hundreds of species that migrate along the four North American flyways, the Atlantic, Mississippi, Central, and Pacific Flyways. Rhythms of earth and sky are in ...

"Visitors may observe from outside the areas marked with yellow caution tape, taking care not to disturb the birds," the ...

Plovers that nest in Chicago and Waukegan are part of the Great Lakes population — one of three distinct populations in North America. Essex and Eastman didn’t have birding backgrounds ...

Here in Illinois, we play a part in making sure that doesn’t happen. Plovers nest in three regions of North America: along the Atlantic coast, along the rivers and lakes of the Northern Great ...

Piping plovers are migrating shorebirds that make their stop along the coastlines of eastern North America each spring to nest and raise their young before setting off on their journey south to ...

“One of our volunteers texted me at 5:15 a.m. on May 6 saying he had eyes on a banded plover at the north end of Waukegan Beach,” she recalled. “Ten minutes later, he texted he had two plovers.

But for our most steadfast beachgoers, the piping plover, now's the perfect time to ... fun things to do (and tasty food to eat) from the North Shore to Cape Cod after you've finished bird watching.

The first piping plover of the season was spotted on Higgins ... s because our temperatures are warming so they’re moving north earlier, but we don’t know that for sure,” Fitch said.