Breaking: It’s officially piping plover season in Chicago. Imani, a 2021 chick of beloved lovebirds Monty and Rose, has been confirmed at Montrose Beach by plover monitors.
, a 2021 chick of beloved lovebirds Monty and Rose, has been confirmed at Montrose Beach by plover monitors.Birders have no idea whether Imani will spend the summer in Chicago — which he did in 2022 — or if he’s just making a pit stop, but hopes are high he’ll settle down and maybe attract a mate.
It’s cause enough for celebration that Imani survived the winter and migration, Edward Warden, president of the Chicago Ornithological Society, said in a video shared on social media. Imani is identified by the pattern of bands on his leg. An unbanded piping plover was also spotted this week at 57th Street beach on Chicago’s south lakefront,The endangered Great Lakes piping plover population has never been particularly huge, but it dipped to just a dozen breeding pairs in the 1980s. Monty and Rose became a global sensation when they chose Montrose Beach as a nesting site in 2019, and then continued to return and breed in 2020 and 2021.
Birders came to expect the pair’s annual reunion and were thrilled to see Monty at Montrose in spring 2022, but were devastated when Rose failed to appear and Monty died from what was later determined to be a fungal infection. The appearance of Imani in 2022 and now again this spring has been aThough the lovable plovers are a gregarious bird, monitors are reminding the public to give Imani and other shorebirds their space so they can rest and eat after their long migration.
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