Monty and Rose need your help…
Chicago Piping Plovers is looking for 20 volunteers to watch over the Montrose Beach nests of our hometown Piping Plovers, Monty and Rose.
Those volunteers will watch over the nests for 2 hours a day, to keep the eggs and eventual chicks safe from any predators. The Piping Plovers are a federally endangered species and there are only an estimated 70 couples of plovers around the Great Lakes.
How will we know when Monty & Rose have returned? By their leg bands.
Pictured is Monty w clear views of his leg bands (Left: Orange flag on upper leg, Violet band over Orange band on lower leg. Right: Silver band on upper leg and Green band on the lower leg).
: Daniel Eastman pic.twitter.com/AC7wIaoh9C— Chicago Piping Plovers (@ChicagoPiping) March 23, 2022
Head over to chicagopipingplovers.org for more information and to sign up to help Monty, Rose, and their babies!
Source: CBS News
