The piping plover is a small shorebird native to North America. The state has seen an incredible increase in the number of breeding pairs, from just 135 to more than a thousand.

Just as piping plover season was beginning to wind down, volunteer monitors in Waukegan have been called back into action, ...

The future is looking a little brighter for the piping plover, an endangered beach-nesting bird, after it registered a 33% increase statewide in nesting pairs last year, including at Cape ...

The release this week of four piping plover fledglings reared in captivity at a secluded beach area on Lake Michigan raises ...