Great Lakes Piping Plover hours old chick. Montrose Beach, Chicago, Illinois on Lake Michigan.

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Great Lakes Piping Plover hours old chick. Montrose Beach, Chicago, Illinois on Lake Michigan.

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The tiny chicks are hard to see in the sand as one of the parents keeps watch over them...like herding cats from what I can tell. These chicks hatched within the last 24 hours and are precocial.

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He is intent on looking for food; he is not angry or charging me. These birds are used to people in the vicinity, what with all of us Ploverazzi.

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Monitoring her 3 precocious chicks at Montrose Beach, Lake Michigan.

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