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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Piping plovers are still flying over Duluth and Superior beaches to nest elsewhere, but their overall Great Lakes population went up significantly in 2017. The diminutive shorebirds have long ...

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.

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 ...