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.

The Chicago birding community is hopeful another generation of endangered piping plovers will hatch on Montrose Beach after a new egg was found. Imani and Searocket paired up and produced the egg.

Susi von Oettingen, a biologist at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the time, said vandalism extends the breeding season because the birds have to start over and lay new eggs.

Updated on: May 31, 2024 / 4:21 PM CDT / CBS Chicago CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago bird fans are flying high with the egg-cellent news that the city's piping plovers are growing their family.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

The endangered birds have produced four eggs at their breeding grounds at Montrose Beach Dunes Natural Area on Chicago’s North Side. A wire enclosure protects the nest and eggs from predators.

Piping plovers Monty and Rose produce another egg after nest attacked by skunk The pair have re-nested at Montrose Beach Dunes Natural Area. By Zinya Salfiti Jun 10, 2021, 2:47pm PDT ...