3 of 4 parents-to-be hatched in a facility in Michigan, while Imani was born in the wild at Montrose Beach to popular plover pair Monty and Rose.
Great Lakes piping plover Imani stretches his wings after helping to incubate an egg at Montrose Beach in Chicago on May 31, 2024. The Chicago Park District announced the presence of a new egg on the protected area at the Montrose Beach Dunes.
Great Lakes piping plover Searocket looks for food near a nest where she laid an egg at Montrose Beach on May 31, 2024, in Chicago. The Park District announced the presence of a new egg on the protected area at Montrose Beach Dunes. An endangered piping plover sits in a gravel parking lot across from the beach in Waukegan Municipal Beach on May 10, 2019, in Waukegan.Imani, background, watches a newly arrived piping plover walk along Montrose Beach on April 27, 2023.
“This is an historic event for the Great Lakes Piping Plover Project,” said Brad Semel, endangered species recovery specialist for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. “It’s been a very long time since piping plovers were nesting in two different locations along the lakeshore in Illinois,” Semel said.
However, volunteer monitors acting as plover protectors had to intervene recently when a grackle, a type of blackbird that eats crops and garbage and also raids bird nests, got inside the cage. “I also celebrate the fact that Imani’s need for a mate is now fulfilled after two seasons without one,” Itani said.
In a little over a minute, the pair returned to the eggs, he said. “I was very relieved to note that both birds accepted the cage,” Semel said. In 1876, Illinois ornithologist E. W. Nelson wrote that the piping plover was “a very common summer resident along Illinois’ lakeshore.” He noted that 30 pairs were breeding along the beach in Waukegan within a space of 2 miles, according to H. David Bohlen, author of “Birds of Illinois.”
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