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Rose and Monty, Chicago’s much loved piping plover pair whose presence on one of the city’s busy beaches made headlines, may have reunited once again on Montrose Beach Dunes.
Rose, who made an 1,100-mile journey to Montrose Beach from Key Preserve State Park in Florida where she spent winter, was spotted back on the lakefront Sunday morning.
Monty may have been spotted back in Montrose on Monday.
Though the number coordinates on the piping plovers could not yet be confirmed, the plover that was sighted wore a green band, as Monty does, explained Louise Clemency, field supervisor for the Chicago office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Chicago expands protected site for endangered shorebirds
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Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Saturday, April 10, 2021
CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago Park District is adding about 3 acres (1.2 hectares) of Lake Michigan lakefront to a protected area set aside as nesting ground for an endangered shorebird.
The district’s move means several sand volleyball courts used at the south end of Chicago’s Montrose Beach will have to find a new home as the 12.8-acre (5.2-hectare) protected area of the Montrose Beach Dunes expands.
Conservationists and bird enthusiasts championed the expansion after a pair of piping plovers first nested at the site in 2019 and returned last year, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Montrose Beach Dunes protected area expanded for piping plovers
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