The Connecticut Audubon Society estimates that, including two coastal rangers, (“We pay them a living wage to be out there,” Andersen said) plus administrative and other costs, it requires the ...

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

As U.S. butterfly populations face declines, the John Ball Zoo has launched a program to save these insects in a race against ...

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

Some of the hottest chicks on Montrose Beach are now named El, Bean and Ferris. Why it matters: The monikers for this third ...

A small endangered bird is bouncing back big-time in the Chicago area after a dramatic rise in the number of breeding pairs. As WTTW News reported, the number of piping plovers in the area has ...

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

At 16 years old, the Great Lakes piping plover, officially designated "Of,gb:X,Y," is the oldest ever recorded for the lakeshore's endangered piping plover population.

Piping plover moms typically lay one egg every other day until they complete a full clutch of four, according to the Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort.

On a humid July afternoon, two tiny Great Lakes piping plovers step cautiously from a breadbox-sized crate onto the sun-warmed sands of a quiet beach. Just a few feet away, a team of researchers ...

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.

This is the second year that the highly endangered Great Lakes piping plover has traveled nearly 1,000 miles to ride out winter along the N.C. coast.