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Piping plovers are continuing their comeback story. Massachusetts beaches for the second straight year saw more nesting piping plovers than at any time in the last four decades, according to Mass ...

Pepper and Blaze — the captive-reared, federally endangered piping plover chicks released on a Lake County beach in 2023 — are back in Waukegan for the second year as breeding adults and the pair is ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — Beloved piping plovers "Blaze" and "Pepper" welcomed three new chicks along Waukegan's lakeshore, and "Imani" and "Sea Rocket" also welcomed three chicks in Chicago. It's call for a ...

The Chicago Park District has voted to name a section of the Montrose Beach Dunes Natural Area after Monty and Rose, a beloved pair of piping plovers whose unlikely love story captured the hearts of ...

An adorable pair of migratory birds known as piping plovers captured Chicago’s collective heart during the summer of 2019. Named Monty and Rose in honor of their nesting location — Montrose Beach — ...

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Brooklynite Marisa Wohl worked in finance and is used to telling people what they don't want to hear. That trait helps her as a NYC Plover Project volunteer, keeping New York beachgoers away from ...

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