“Our hope is that these chicks return to Montrose Beach next year and nest here,” said Brad Semel, Illinois Department of Natural Resources endangered species recovery specialist. At the end of summer, their journey will continue when they migrate south for the winter. Federal, state, and zoo staff helped transport chicks to Michigan where they were raised in captivity at the University of Michigan’s Biological Station near Pellston, Mich., where the Detroit Zoo manages a captive rearing facility for Great Lakes piping plovers. They were rescued in New York after each nest lost an incubating adult. These 5-week-old chicks are well traveled. We aren’t putting ‘all our eggs in one basket’ or in this case all our chicks on one beach!” “It’s a strategy to reduce the extinction risk to the population. Fish and Wildlife Service fish and wildlife biologist. “Releasing captive reared piping plover chicks in new locations helps to encourage the population to spread throughout the Great Lakes Region,” said Armand Cann, U.S. This release marks the first time piping plovers have been released outside Michigan and works toward the recovery goal of 50 pairs of plovers outside Michigan. Fish and Wildlife Service, with our partners Illinois Department of Natural Resources and Chicago Park District, are celebrating the release of federally endangered piping plover chicks back into the wild at Montrose Beach in Chicago, Illinois.
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