Of,RR:X,V (RRV or Irv) is spending his fourth winter at Yum Balam in Yucatan, Mexico
We've added a new plover life story about him to the plover stories tab of our website.
2022 Captive-reared chick now in FL
The 2022 Captive-reared chick (Of,bG:X,L/O/L) that was featured in this blog on August 2nd is now in southwest Florida. On August 2nd it...
Reflecting on a Manitou solitaire with the endangered piping plovers
Article by Scott Mills published in The Glen Arbor Sun https://glenarborsun.com/reflecting-on-a-manitou-solitaire-with-the-endangered-pip...
The First 2022 Juvenile Arrives at the Coast!
...and it's one of our captive-reared chicks! The first juvenile Great Lakes Piping Plover at the coast on 8/2. Glibert Grant found it on...
First Females return 4-16
The first females returned to Sleeping Bear Dunes. Two females and one male were resting near each other in the cobble, sheltering from...
First Plover returns to the Great Lakes 4/11/2022
The winner of the 2022 Great Lakes Piping Plover race is Of,RR:X,G (aka RRG, pronounced Erg). He was first seen on the afternoon of...
Heading North!
Great Lakes Piping Plovers are headed north. Any day now the first ones will arrive. We've gotten some recent reports from the south that...
Where are the Great Lakes Piping Plovers now?
Because we band Great Lakes Piping Plovers with color bands that can be uniquely identified using binoculars, spotting scopes, and...
Happy 15th BRR-thday! 6/26/2021
BRR (Of,BR:X,R - His bands are: Left leg orange flag-“Of”, blue-“B”, red-“R”; right leg metal-“X”, red-“R”, though his red bands have...
Brothers Earl and Erg are Back for the Summer
Another two regulars of the Sleeping Bear nesting scene returned last week…brothers, Earl and Erg. Earl (Of,RR:X,L) and Erg (Of,RR:X,G)...
