A third piping plover chick has died, just days after two others died, leaving just one remaining from this year's hatching, said the Chicago Piping Plovers., a volunteer organization dedicated to protecting the endangered birds.
Violet Miller and Emmanuel CamarilloA second of four newly-hatched piping plover chicks has died at Montrose Beach , the Chicago Piping Plover s organization said Friday.A third piping plover chick has died, just days after two others died, leaving just one remaining from this year's hatching, said the Chicago Piping Plover s., a volunteer organization dedicated to protecting the endangered birds.
"We are saddened to report the passing of another chick," the statement read. "Chicago Piping Plovers and its partners remain grateful for the outpouring of love and support. We are working to understand the factors that have led to the demise of our precious chicks." The death of the first chick was announced Wednesday after a chick was found dead on the beach with a growth on its neck, and was taken back to Lincoln Park Zoo for a necropsy. The next was announced Friday after an almost identical string of events led to the chick dying at the zoo overnight.
The surviving chicks had been examined by a veterinarian and banded Friday, and neither exhibited any signs of illness or injury, the organization said. A team of biologists from several agencies collected the two chicks Friday morning for examination, though they were later released.Imani was hatched at Montrose Beach in 2021 to piping plovers Monty and Rose while Sea Rocket was a captive-reared chick released at the beach in July 2023.
Montrose Beach became a protected sanctuary in 2019, the same year the first piping plover chicks hatched in Illinois since they disappeared across the state in 1955. The Great Lakes population of piping plovers is considered endangered, with 75 to 80 nesting pairs in the Great Lakes area, according to the U.S. National Park Service.
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