Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the oldest-known endangered piping plovers at Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore increased her impressive breeding record ...

Watch your step! The tiny, fluffy chicks are running around and foraging for themselves within hours of hatching.

EMPIRE, MI -- Piping Plover fledglings graduated out of captivity and made it onto Sleeping Bear beach this summer, joining a record-breaking nesting season across the Great Lakes. Sleeping Bear Dunes ...

EMPIRE, MI -- One of Lake Michigan’s most famous residents has returned home to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Gabby, the oldest Great Lakes piping plover, returned to her shoreline home this ...

Thu, 21 May 2015 13:16:17 GMT — National Parks Service has temporality closed Sleeping Bear Point Trail to pets for the protection of nesting Piping Plovers. According to the National Parks Service, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — One of the nation’s leading experts on a critically endangered bird says potential federal spending cuts could spell doom for the Great Lakes piping plover. Francie ...

Two teen boys arrested after 3 a.m. chase ends on train tracks in Cadillac WEXFORD COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- A police chase in Cadillac involving two teenage boys ends with two arrests.Police said ...

On a humid July afternoon, two tiny Great Lakes piping plovers step cautiously from a breadbox-sized crate onto the sun-warmed sands of a quiet beach. Just a few feet away, a team of researchers, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — One plucky, little bird is doing her part to keep her species alive. The Great Lakes Piping Plover Conservation Team says one of the birds they track has survived another ...

A 16-year-old piping plover, known as Gabby, has hatched two more chicks at Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore, bringing her lifetime total to 37. Gabby, officially designated "Of,gb:X,Y," is the oldest ...