Piping plover parents have their work cut out for them with these precocious chicks. Ready to roam the beach just hours after ...

A retired park administrator said some birds won't survive this year because scientists and supplies needed to protect them ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says it won’t let any federal funding issues slow its work to protect the Great ...

One of the nation’s leading experts on a critically endangered bird says potential federal spending cuts could spell doom for ...

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 ...

Michigan is home to hundreds of bald eagles, with many staying year-round to feed on fish from the Great Lakes and other bodies of water. The large raptors — which just officially became the U.S.

In the fall, after the plovers migrate to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the United States, monitors help prepare the ...

How muskrats shape bird-friendly wetlands is the topic of the Lake County Audubon Society meeting at 7 p.m. April 7, at Aspen Drive Library, 701 Aspen Drive in Vernon Hills. Stephanie Beilke, senior ...