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 ...

A tattoo of Rose, an endangered Great Lakes piping plover, is inked on the leg of Dori Levine, a volunteer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as she observes Rose and her mate, Monty, with ...

Protecting the plovers. Though a Great Lakes piping plover is small enough to rest in the palm of your hand, they are facing huge threats in the wild.

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.

But in the 1980s, the sign notes, the Great Lakes were down to just 12 breeding pairs of piping plovers. “Their numbers had been declining for some time when they were listed as endangered.

The Great Lakes population of piping plovers was listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act on January 10, 1986. The Great Lakes population had declined from a historic size of ...

Jul. 28—GLEN HAVEN — Four piping plovers rested on the beach near Glen ... The adult among them was part of a record number of breeding pairs of the endangered birds around the Great Lakes.

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 ...