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Ohio's killdeer birds are known for their dramatic "broken-wing act" to protect nests and their unique nesting habits.

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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 ...

EMPIRE, MICH. -- The first piping plover to return to the Great Lakes region this spring has been reported at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, kicking off another breeding season for the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – One million species are threatened with extinction, and climate change is a primary reason to blame, according to new research. Hundreds of these species live in the Illinois ecosystem ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Calling all bird lovers: Chicago’s piping plovers are in need of some volunteer monitors. In a recent social media post, the organization Chicago Piping Plovers put a call-out for ...

Blaze, a female piping plover, spent the winter in North Carolina. Pepper, a male piping plover, wintered 775 miles away in Florida. But, in a migration miracle, the federally endangered, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- An endangered bird chick was killed by a hawk at a Chicago beach, a local bird monitoring group announced. Chicago Piping Plovers said a piping plover named "Ferris" died just six ...

Uptown artist Ashley Kennedy has painted five murals in her life, all done with Chicago in mind. Her latest is actually a re-do. A new-ish mural was unveiled Tuesday at the Buena Avenue underpass at ...