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CBS News
3 days ago
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Chicago piping plover chicks move to 63rd Street Beach
Chicago's beloved piping plover chicks have flown south — but only south from Cubs fan territory to White Sox fan territory. The piping plover chicks, El and Bean, can now been seen on the 63rd Street Beach on the shore of Jackson Park. The beach is one of the Shedd Aquarium's longest-running sites for community cleanup and habitat restoration. Along with the chicks, the 63rd Street Beach is home to other migratory birds, cliff swallows, and even baby turtles. The piping plover chicks had made their home at Montrose Beach. But on Saturday, Aug. 2, a third piping plover chick, Ferris, was killed by a red-tailed hawk, according to the Chicago Piping Plovers bird monitoring group. A pair of famous piping plovers named Monty and Rose were the first to nest at Montrose Beach in 71 years when they appeared in 2019. Monty and Rose were the parents of a male piping plover named Imani. Imani and the female piping plover Sea Rocket are in turn the parents of El and Bean.
CBS News
01-07-2025
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Name Chicago's newest piping plover chicks
Chicago's newest additions to the piping plover community need names. The parents, beloved Imani and Sea Rocket, laid their first egg of the season on the Montrose Beach dunes shoreline back in May. Now they need your help. Name suggestions can be submitted on the "Chicago Piping Plovers" Facebook page. The Chicago Ornithological Society wants names that reflect Chicago's heritage, culture, and diversity. The name submission deadline is July 7. The Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary attracts tens of thousands of migratory birds every year. It features a Magic Hedge — a 150-yard stretch of shrubs and trees — that attracts an especially large number of species. Piping plovers are found not in the Magic Hedge, but on the beach. Monty and Rose — named after the beach that is in turn named after the east-west street of which it serves at the mouth — were the first to nest at Montrose Beach in 71 years when they appeared in 2019. Pippin was hatched in 2023 in Cat Island, located in Lake Superior in the northernmost reaches of Wisconsin.
CTV News
09-06-2025
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CTV National News: Federal judge orders Ottawa to revisit plan to protect endangered shorebird
A judge orders Ottawa to revise its plan to protect the endangered piping plover. CTV's Paul Hollingsworth reports on the impact for species protection.
CTV News
03-06-2025
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Judge orders rethink of preservation plan for endangered piping plovers on East Coast
A piping plover walks on the sand in Glen Haven, Mich., May 30, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-John Flesher HALIFAX — A federal judge has ordered Ottawa to rethink its strategy to preserve an endangered shorebird. In a decision released yesterday, Justice Richard Southcott sent the piping plover recovery plan back to the federal environment minister for 'reconsideration.' The judge wrote that federal lawyers had failed to 'intelligibly respond' to the concerns raised by Nature Nova Scotia and the East Coast Environmental Law Association about the plan approved by the minister in 2022. The plaintiffs argued Ottawa's system of protecting specific sections of beaches in Atlantic Canada and Quebec was confusing and vague — and they asked the minister to go back to protecting entire beaches as piping plover habitat. Piping plovers are small shorebirds that nest primarily on sand, gravel or cobblestone beaches. The court heard that there are only between 170 to 190 nesting pairs left, well below the 2022 plan's goal of 310 pairs. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 3, 2025.
CTV News
21-05-2025
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Environmental lawyers tell courtroom Ottawa's protections for piping plovers flawed
A piping plover walks on the sand in Glen Haven, Mich., May 30, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-John Flesher HALIFAX — Environmental groups are arguing in Federal Court that Ottawa's plans for protecting the habitat of the piping plover are vague and inadequate. The endangered, migratory shorebirds build their nests along coastal beaches where they're increasingly at risk from human activities and predators. Lawyers for East Coast Environmental Law and Nature Nova Scotia say the federal approach of protecting specific parts of beaches has unclear language and is weaker than Ottawa's prior conservation strategy. The group says the old strategy held Ottawa to a higher standard of protecting entire beach areas at sites in Atlantic Canada and Quebec. A spokeswoman for the Environment Department says the new approach was developed using information and input from federal, provincial, territorial and Indigenous governments. Cecelia Parsons says the protection strategy meets Canada's obligations under the Species at Risk Act, using refined habitat mapping and 'conservation efforts based on the latest science.' This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 21, 2025. The Canadian Press
