Great Lakes piping plovers are small, federally endangered migratory shorebirds that nest and feed along the sand and gravel ...

Hundreds of red-breasted mergansers have been found either dead or sick over the past few days along Lake Michigan in Chicago ...

The AP team documented the plight of the piping plovers being squeezed out by surging Great Lakes waters during this spring’s Midwestern flooding. The package put the birds’ story into the broader ...

For more than 20 years, professor Keith Grasman has studied the effects of pollution on Great Lakes colonial waterbirds, focusing on three species: Herring Gulls, Black-Crowned Night Herons and ...

Instead of finding snowy owls Tuesday morning, Debbie Porter and Steve Haupp found Lake Superior sea smoke and a pileated woodpecker at Brighton Beach. Debbie Porter, left, admires a pileated ...

While many of Michigan's summertime birds head south when it gets cold, dozens of species thrive amid the cold. What to know about feeding them.

Gulls and terns studied in known polluted shoreline areas had a host of worse health and reproductive outcomes than those in nonpolluted areas.