Chicago's newest additions to the piping plover community need names. The parents, beloved Imani and Sea Rocket, laid their ...

And then one of my personal favorites is the Bill Jarvis Bird Sanctuary. That’s a great one. Samantha Beckett, a McKinley Park resident, takes pictures of birds at Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary.

While Chicago’s North Side is home to popular birding locations like the Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary and North Pond Nature Sanctuary, South Side locations like Big Marsh Park in South Deering ...

Tarik Shahzad walks around Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary in Chicago on Jan. 24, 2025, while bird-watching. Shahzad set a record by identifying 294 birds in Cook County in 2024.

The Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary attracts tens of thousands of migratory birds every year. It features a Magic Hedge — a 150-yard stretch of shrubs and trees — that attracts an especially ...

Every morning and every afternoon for a month last summer, he staked out a spot at the Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There are new piping plovers in town. Imani and Searocket have hatched their first chicks. Their nest is on the Montrose Beach Dunes. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7.

Montrose Beach became a protected sanctuary in 2019, the same year the first piping plover chicks hatched in Illinois since they disappeared across the state in 1955. The Great Lakes population of ...

It was a happy Father's Day Sunday for Chicago's favorite piping plover bird couple, Imani and Searocket, who now have three new eggs for a total of four future hatchlings.