OVER.

CICADA IS THERE ARE SOME NEW ARRIVALS IN TOWN.

THE LEGACY OF THE BELOVED PIPING CLOVERS, MONTANA ROSE LIVES ON MONTROSE BEACH, THEIR SON, THE MONEY.

NOW A FATHER HIMSELF W T TW NEWS REPORTER PATTY, WHAT LEE JOINS US NOW WITH MORE ON THE EGG-CITING WHAT IS THE OVER CHECKED?

YES OR BOY.

AMANI AND HIS MATES, IRAQ.

IT HAVE BEEN INCUBATING FOR EGGS.

AND YESTERDAY WE FOUND OUT 3 OF THEM HAD HATCHED.

AND THEN THIS MORNING, THE 4TH ONE.

SO THEY ARE NOW FAMILY OF 6 ON MONTROSE BEACH.

VERY EXCITING.

I LOVE THAT.

CITING AS YOU SAY, IT AND HAD SWITCH OPPORTUNITIES HERE.

THEY DO.

THAT'S THAT'S REFRESHING.

NO OFFENSE TO MOTHER MY CHILD.

OF COURSE.

OKAY.

REMIND US AGAIN WHAT IS SO SIGNIFICANT ABOUT THESE BIRDS IN THE IF YOU REMEMBER 5 YEARS AGO WHO EVEN KNEW WHAT A PIPING PLOVER WAS AND THEN MONTANA ROSE SETTLED IN AT MONTROSE BEACH AND BECAME GREAT AMBASSADORS FOR THIS ENDANGERED SPECIES.

YOU KNOW, NOT THAT LONG AGO, THERE WERE ONLY 12 BREEDING PAIRS IN THE ENTIRE GREAT LAKES THIS YEAR.

WE'RE CLOSING IN ON 80, WHICH IS A GREAT MARK TO REACHED AT THIS POINT.

BUT THERE USED TO BE HUNDREDS SO GREAT RECOVERY EFFORTS UNDERWAY AND IT'S AWESOME TO SEE THAT.

YOU KNOW, WE NOW HAVE NESTING BIRDS AND CHICKS AT MONTROSE AND ALSO UP NORTH IN WAUKEGAN.

SO WE'VE GOT TO CLOVER FAMILIES IN ILLINOIS WHERE FOR A GOOD, 50 YEARS, THERE WAS REALLY NOTHING BESIDES MOUNTAIN ROADS, PART OF MONTANA ROADS.

SO THEY'VE BEEN REALLY SCARCE.

NOW.

YOU AND NOT BE A CHICAGO AND NOT KNOW WHO MY REALLY IN WAUKEGAN?

HOW MANY BABY OVER TO ME.

AND WE KNOW WE'VE GOT 3 THERE FOR SURE AT THE LAST COUNT.

I THINK THERE WAS ALSO A 4TH IN TO THE PARENT BLAZE AND PEPPER.

THE PARENTS THERE.

HE'S SO HAPPY UNCOVERED SKYROCKETING MONEY.

OKAY.

WHAT SHOULD PEOPLE KNOW?

HOWEVER, IF THEY ARE GOING TO MONTROSE EITHER TRYING CATCH A GLIMPSE OF THEIR NEW NEIGHBORS, EVEN BE DOING THAT.

WELL, I MEAN, YOU WANT TO A LITTLE FLUFF, BUT GIVE THEM THEIR SPACE.

RESPECT THE FENCING, THE PROTECTIVE AREA BE CHELSEA PLOVER MONITORS THERE.

YOU KNOW, THESE LITTLE CHICKS, THEIR MOBILE AS SOON AS THEY'RE BORN.

SO THEY MIGHT NOT KNOW WHERE THAT FUNDING LINE IS.

SO, YOU KNOW, WATCH WHERE YOU'RE STEPPING.

THEY'RE VERY TINY.

IF YOU'RE TAKING A DOG TO THE BEACH FOR SURE.

KEEPING ON A LEASH.

I'M TRYING PICK UP TRASH BECAUSE THAT ACTUALLY TRACKS GOALS WHICH ARE ONE OF THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THESE LITTLE CHICK.

THEY WANT WANT TO SO, YOU KNOW, JUST BASICALLY BE RESPECTFUL OF THEM AND UNDERSTAND LIKE HOW EXCITING IT IS THAT THEY'RE HERE AND WE WANT TO PROTECT THEM, MAKE SURE THAT THEY GROW UP, YOU KNOW, TO BE ABLE TO MIGRATE SOUTH, COME BACK, START THEIR OWN FAMILIES OVER ACTUALLY SAYING THEM.

I SAW HIM.

I KNEW LIKE 10 DAYS AGO AND I WANT TO GO DOWN TO THE BEACH TOMORROW TO SEE IF I COULD CHECK BE CHECKING YOUR TWITTER FOR YOU FOR YOUR REPORTING.

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