Chicago Piping Plovers
The offical account for Chicago Piping Plover news and content. Media inquiries email piperwatch@chicagobirder.org.
- Register for this free event highlighting Chicagoland conservation projects, including your Chicago Piping Plovers! 🤍 chicagobirdalliance.org/new-events/2...
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- Fellow Chicagoans, we are kindly requesting your consideration of 'Monty the Piping Plower' as one of your six votes. 💚 www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...
- The city released the 25 finalists in its "Name A Snowplow" contest. "Abolish ICE" made the list. blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/01/h...
- Oh, This Would Be Epic! Whoever submitted 'Monty the Piping Plower' to the annual Chicago "You Name A Snowplow" Contest is genius! Fellow Chicagoans, we would be honored if Monty made your list of six votes. Voting is now open through February 14. www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...
- Summer Internship As our minds drift to warmer weather and the anticipated return of our beloved Piping Plovers and other shorebirds, an opportunity! chicagobirdalliance.org/employment
- 2016 Chicago always has and always will love each and every resting and nesting Piping Plover that touches down on our shores. 🤍 #2016throwback
- The story of the Piping Plovers at Montrose is already rich with legend, and the 2025 Great Lakes Piping Plover breeding season at Montrose Beach, with its highs and its heartbreaking lows, added another unforgettable chapter to this ongoing conservation journey. 1/4 📸: Tamima Itani
- Excited to share the feature in this @nytimes piece of Monty & Rose and how Chicago worked and works to protect your Chicago Piping Plovers! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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- The Spaces In Between This past Thursday evening, Sharing Our Shore-Waukegan and Waukegan History Museum hosted a lecture by Dr. Francie Cuthbert. 1/6
- Breeding Season and Pre-Breeding Season There is never a post-breeding season when it comes to our Piping Plovers! Work is year-round. Pictured are reps of the Chicago Park District, IL Dept of Natural Resources, and Chicago Piping Plovers having their Fall habitat management discussion.
- Join the stewards of Montrose Dunes and Montrose Bird Sanctuary on Saturday, October 18 at 9am for the final workday of 2025. Volunteers will remove invasive species, collect trash, and get the site ready for winter. RSVP is optional (email montrosedunesnaturalarea@gmail.com).
- Rest in Peace, Tony 🤍 www.instagram.com/p/DKiBOkcvkF...
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- Wonderful memories! Thank you for sharing! 🤍
- Join in 2026 Great Lakes Piping Plover breeding season prep! Will Chicago get a second nesting site in 2026? We hope so! www.chicagobirder.org/events/2025/...
- As we close out Plover Appreciation Day with this year's theme #ploverart, celebrating Piping Plovers and the art they inspire continues. Head up to Waukegan for this special art exhibition! 🤍
- The art of photography is prominently featured on this page through the Daily Imani and beyond. We are grateful to community members for sharing their pictures with us to share with you to tell this conservation story and inspire engagement in the recovery effort. 📸: Liam Francis Shanley (Pippin)
- Recovery is a community effort Your endangered Great Lakes population of Piping Plovers had a record-breaking year with 88 nesting pairs. 1/3 🖼️: Julie Young (a beautiful painting of Imani, reference photo credit to Plovermother Tamima Itani) #ploverart #PloverAppreciationDay
- When Sarah Freeman's daughter Caitlin set her June wedding date, mom went to work creating the MOST fantastic wedding cake toppers in stained glass, recognizing the bride's favorite animal is the Piping Plover. 🤍 So beautiful!
- "A few years ago I was doing a 'scavenger hunt' and one of the tasks was to create an endangered species artwork using only edible things. Here is my Piping Plover made out of seeds, nuts, and peanut skins." ~ Your Chicago Piping Plover Monitor 🧡 Pam Litchfield Carmona #ploverart
- Art serves as powerful historical record. This beautiful painting [reference photo credit to Wild Birds Unlimited] by Anne Essex, mother of one of your Chicago Piping Plover Monitors 🧡, takes us back to the Summer of 2023. 1/2 #PloverAppreciationDay #ploverart
- Epic news! Aster, the 2025 Waukegan chick of Blaze and Pepper, has been sighted on wintering grounds! 🤍🟡
- "I took my graduate researcher Collett to Montrose Beach to watch the plover chicks grow up this summer. She's a scientist and an artist. She made this cute little water color painting of one of the chicks when they were teenagers. 😊 I love it so much. ❤️❤️❤️" ~ Tirzah Abbott #ploverart
- As we continue Plover Appreciation Day celebrations with the theme #ploverart, here's a closer look at Sophie Lucido Johnson's lovely painting (reference photo credit to Phil Stosberg), which was recently gifted to Plovermother Tamima Itani by your Chicago Piping Plover Monitor 🧡 Kat.
- We are loving this year's theme for Plover Appreciation Day, #ploverart. Your Chicago Piping Plover Monitor 🧡 Brenda Janish made these sweet treats for the monitor season-end bash. She had the mold made and decorated the cookies - perfection! 🤍
- Happy Plover Appreciation Day! Art/artists have a powerful role in conservation, evoking strong feelings and generating discussion. To kick off our celebration of Plover Appreciation Day w/ this year's theme #ploverart, enjoy this enchanting drawing by your Chicago PIPL Monitor 🧡 Glenna Anderson.
- Reposted by Chicago Piping PloversToday is the big day - Happy #PloverAppreciationDay ! We're excited to share submissions to our student art competition and some of the art from our talented coastal communities. Stay tuned for our announcement of winners at 5pm AEST later this evening! #PAD2025
- Reposted by Chicago Piping PloversArt murals and sculptures play such a powerful role in communicating local conservation issues – especially when placed in coastal towns with high numbers of visitors! Unlike the secretive and well-camouflaged Hoodie nests and chicks, you really can't miss these striking artworks. #PAD2025
- Montrose Dunes Stewardship Workday: This Saturday, September 20
- Yay for Illinois Plovers! Your ILLINOIS Piping Plover Monitors wrapped up the 2025 breeding season, celebrating the highs and still feeling the lows (we never forget our lost chicks). Two nests! Two monitoring teams! Tremendous passion and commitment. 1/2
- Reposted by Chicago Piping PloversIt's #PloverAppreciationDay this Tuesday 16th and we've already had incredible entries to our art competition! It’s not too late! If you know someone aged between 4-13 who wants to share their talents and appreciation for plovers, have them enter our competition! Details in photo.
- The season is over, but if you’re still hankering for some Plover time, visit our table at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum between 10AM and 4PM today and tomorrow at the Urban Birding Festival. You may even have a chance to have your picture photobombed by COS president, Edward Warden.
- Read about LO Beebee and her first migration to wintering grounds. She is the daughter of Uncle Larry, who made a brief stop at Montrose this Spring, and the sister of Benny and Ray, who were released in Waukegan in July. 🤍 www.greatlakespipingplover.org/single-post/...
- "The extinction of a species should be a wake-up call, not a eulogy."
- A terrific read! 🤍 news.umich.edu/piping-plove...
