The First 2022 Juvenile Arrives at the Coast!
...and it's one of our captive-reared chicks! The first juvenile Great Lakes Piping Plover at the coast on 8/2. Glibert Grant found it on...
First Females return 4-16
The first females returned to Sleeping Bear Dunes. Two females and one male were resting near each other in the cobble, sheltering from...
First Plover returns to the Great Lakes 4/11/2022
The winner of the 2022 Great Lakes Piping Plover race is Of,RR:X,G (aka RRG, pronounced Erg). He was first seen on the afternoon of...
Heading North!
Great Lakes Piping Plovers are headed north. Any day now the first ones will arrive. We've gotten some recent reports from the south that...
Where are the Great Lakes Piping Plovers now?
Because we band Great Lakes Piping Plovers with color bands that can be uniquely identified using binoculars, spotting scopes, and...
Happy 15th BRR-thday! 6/26/2021
BRR (Of,BR:X,R - His bands are: Left leg orange flag-“Of”, blue-“B”, red-“R”; right leg metal-“X”, red-“R”, though his red bands have...
Brothers Earl and Erg are Back for the Summer
Another two regulars of the Sleeping Bear nesting scene returned last week…brothers, Earl and Erg. Earl (Of,RR:X,L) and Erg (Of,RR:X,G)...
The First Piping Plovers return to Great Lakes Beaches!
On April 12th long-time (and very excited) plover monitor, Chelsea Loomis, found the first Piping Plovers of the 2021 Great Lakes plover...
First Great Lakes migrant
Of,LL:X,B, an eleven-year-old female who nests on North Manitou Island in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, MI and winters on Marco...
Preparing to Head North
Great Lakes Piping Plovers are beginning to molt into alternate (breeding) plumage in preparation for their trip back north. Pat and...
