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CBS News
25-05-2025
- General
- CBS News
Volunteers create new campaign to help protect beloved piping plovers at Montrose Beach
New campaign aims to protect piping plovers New campaign aims to protect piping plovers New campaign aims to protect piping plovers It's been one week since Chicago's beloved piping plovers Imani and Sea Rocket laid their first egg of the season in Montrose Beach. Since the presence of dogs can frighten shore birds, volunteers have now created a way for residents and their furry friends to help keep endangered species safe. The Piping Plover Pal campaign allows dog owners and their pets to sign a pledge and get a leash cover. In the pledge you can commit to: Using the Montrose Dog Beach each time I bring a dog in my care to the Montrose Beach Area. Always leashing my dog outside of dog-friendly areas. Keeping my dog outside of protected natural areas. So far, 25 pups and their owners took the pledge. Volunteers will be by the Montrose Dog Beach entrance at 10 a.m. for those interested in taking the pledge. Volunteers will also be at the dog beach on Friday and Saturday mornings.
CBS News
19-05-2025
- Science
- CBS News
Chicago's Piping plovers Imani and Sea Rocket lay first egg of season
Piping plovers Imani and Sea Rocket lay first egg of season Piping plovers Imani and Sea Rocket lay first egg of season Piping plovers Imani and Sea Rocket lay first egg of season The next generation of Montrose Beach's piping plovers are to be on the way. Chicago's beloved Imani and Sea Rocket laid their first egg of the season on the Montrose Beach dunes shoreline Sunday morning. Volunteers said they expect Sea Rocket to lay four eggs total. Along with Imani and Sea Rocket, volunteers said Pippin is also back at Montrose Beach for the season. It is now peak of migration season. 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.
