Click here to watch The first egg was found in a protected area of the beach last month. Imani was hatched to beloved piping plovers Monty and Rose at Montrose Beach in 2021.

It was a happy Father's Day Sunday for Chicago's favorite piping plover couple, Imani and Searocket, who now have three more eggs for future hatchlings. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7.

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.

Three other eggs that had been washed away by waves were discovered later that same day. Staff said they were unsure if they could save the birds, as one was in mid-hatch at had sustained damage ...

The thieves face a $25,000 fine and six months in jail for each stolen egg. Experts say there are only 6,000 to 8,000 piping plovers left in the world.

The eggs were a product of a recent pairing between Searocket and native-born piping plover Imani, who hatched at Montrose in 2021. “The experiment worked!” the news release said.

Long Island Environment Incidents targeting protected shorebirds prompt officials to offer $5,000 rewards Piping plover chicks and eggs in a nest. Credit: USFWS/Chelsi Burns ...

SEABROOK — The eggs in a late-incubating piping plover nest are expected to hatch next week, according to New Hampshire Fish and Game, which confirmed this is the nesting pair’s ...

Each stolen egg carries up to a $25,000 fine and six-month jail sentence. The vandals damaged fencing around two piping plover nests and stole two eggs from each nest, authorities said.

These preserved snowy plovers, a threatened species, is on display at the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach on Tuesday, April 17, 2018. Snowy Plover bird eggs were found ...

The City of Waukegan designated the endangered Great Lakes piping plover the official city bird on May 20, 2024. Piping plovers disappeared from Illinois beaches around 1955.