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The surviving piping plover chick on Montrose Beach now has a name. The chick, born this summer to parents Imani and Searocket, was named Nagamo, which means “he/she sings” in Ojibwe, one of the ...

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Montrose Beach’s new piping plover family and its dedicated monitors awoke to sad news on Wednesday morning. One of the four piping plover chicks born on Montrose Beach went missing under “unknown ...

Montrose Beach became a nesting site for piping plovers in 2019. In 2019, Tamima Itani noticed piping plovers building a nest along a volleyball court at Montrose Beach – the first plovers to nest in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — A third chick born to the Montrose ...

A second of four piping plover chicks at Montrose Beach has died, just days after the plumed family lost its first chick. Monitors observed one of three surviving chicks in Imani and Sea Rocket’s nest ...

It's been one week since Chicago's beloved piping plovers Imani and Sea Rocket laid their first egg of the season in Montrose Beach. Since the presence of dogs can frighten shore birds, volunteers ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's nesting season in Chicago, and an exciting discovery was made on the Montrose Beach Dunes on Sunday. The parents, Imani and Sea Rocket, laid their first egg as part of a four-egg ...

A pair of snowy owls, the latest celebrity visitors to the beach and pier near Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary, have drawn hundreds for a glimpse at the Arctic birds of prey. Several dozen birdwatchers ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — The Piping Plover pair of Imani ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's lakefront was crowded again this weekend as new COVID-19 cases continue to surge in the city. Mayor Lori Lightfoot threatened to shut the lakefront down again after she ...