It is officially beach season on the Great Lakes. Protect our shorebirds! ⬇️ 🌊🌊

One minute of calm 🩵

Thank you, CBS Chicago !

Happy Female Bird Day! Celebrated May 24-26, 2025, Female Bird Day promotes the study and appreciation of the most misunderstood birds in North America. Listen for female birdsong. The songs of female birds can be unique. 📸: Tamima Itani (Sea Rocket)

Celebrating Female Bird Day! Female birds have historically been overlooked in both scientific research and birding. Today is a great opportunity to learn about and appreciate female birds for all that they are! Here’s to our female Piping Plovers; past, present, and future 🩵

Yay! 🤍🟢

Terrific! 🤍🧡

Piping Plover shirts!

Good day from Pippin and his Ruddy Turnstone dining companion! ☀️ Piping Plovers are an umbrella species. Umbrella species are those whose conservation confers protection to other species. 📸: Booker Marshall (Pippin and Ruddy Turnstone, Montrose Pier, May 2025)