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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

By Jack Motz and Michelle Trauring The Montauk Chamber of Commerce delayed — and ultimately canceled — its annual “Stars Over ...

Among the best-known environmental work happening at the biological station is the captive rearing experts for the Great Lakes Piping Plover Conservation Team. The effort has been instrumental over ...