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    In a win for endangered piping plovers like Chicago’s Monty and Rose, the Great Lakes has record breeding season

    by Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune Aug 07, 2022 3 minutes
    A piping plover named Rose appears at Montrose Beach in Chicago on April 26, 2021. Rose and her mate, Monty, first met on a Waukegan beach when they were only a few months old. They attempted to nest in Waukegan in 2018, without success, but in 2019, they ended up fledging two chicks on Montrose.

    CHICAGO — Monty and Rose, who achieved local fame in 2019 as the first federally endangered piping plovers to raise a family in Chicago in almost 60 years, are gone from the North Side beach where they spent three summers.

    But the hope that the jaunty little shorebirds sparked for their species continues to grow.

    The Great Lakes Piping Plover Conservation Team has announced a record-breaking 2022 breeding season, with 149 wild

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