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

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Tamima Itani and other bird watchers visited Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary on May 20. Zinya Salfiti/Chicago-Sun Times It’s the birders who look out for Monty and Rose, the pair of piping plovers ...

The Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary is a place where more than 300 species have fluttered their wings. And now, the Park District plans to install a wheelchair-accessible path – which has some ...

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 ...

Montrose Beach: land of volleyball, off-leash dogs, and a small mound that, by Chicago standards, qualifies as a mountain. It’s also home to the Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary, a 15-acre reserve ...

Chicago ranks as one of the top bird-watching destinations in the U.S. because of its ... 361 bird species have been sighted in the 15-acre Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary in Lincoln Park on ...

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 ...

A fish leaps from the water at Montrose Point. A piping plover cleans its feathers at Montrose Point on Monday, May 11, 2020. Spider web at Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary on Tuesday, April 28, 2020.

A tree swallow perches on a fence post blocking a protected area of the Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary in June 2019. The sanctuary contains several guarded areas to preserve the many species ...