Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 19, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

You’d walk right by a piping plover if it stayed perfectly still. The birds are tiny, perhaps the size of a sparrow, and colored to blend in with the sand and tidal mud flats they call home. Protect ...

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

Piping plovers have made a remarkable recovery in Massachusetts. But the tiny, threatened shorebird is declining in other ...

Officials discovered a piping plover nestled on a fireworks launchpoint before the show was about to begin, Montauk officials ...

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

This year, the names represent iconic Chicago landmarks woven into the city’s fabric and known to all visitors of our beloved ...

The three new piping plover chicks born at Montrose Beach have been named in true Chicago fashion: Bean, El and Ferris. Bean is named after the Cloud Gate sculpture, colloquially called “The Bean,” in ...

Some of the hottest chicks on Montrose Beach are now named El, Bean and Ferris. Why it matters: The monikers for this third generation of local piping plovers cement their Chicago cred with sly nods ...

Up to 800 piping plover pairs once nested annually throughout the Great Lakes region, but by the 1980s that number had dwindled to about a dozen pairs, resulting in the species being placed on the … ...