Officials said the remaining egg was still being incubated.
CHICAGO — Beloved piping plovers 'Blaze' and 'Pepper' welcomed three new chicks along Waukegan's lakeshore, and it's call for a 'shell-ebration.' The Lake Country Audubon Society announced three of the plover's four eggs hatched on Thursday after a highly anticipated 26-day incubation period. Piping plovers are thought to be nearly extinct.
Piping plovers disappeared from Illinois beaches around 1955. However, their population numbers began to go up, and they were seen nesting in the state about 60 years later, in 2015. The rare plovers have been reported on Chicago beaches recently. Another piping plover, believed to be female whose name is Sea Rocket, returned to Montrose Beach in May, giving observers hope that there might be a love connection in the works.
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