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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

and which has only been sighted a couple of times in the Great Lakes. Along with the variety of birds, bird-watchers are becoming more diverse, Shahzad said. “We have a really robust bird-watchi ...