As we close out Plover Appreciation Day with this year's theme #ploverart, celebrating Piping Plovers and the art they inspire continues. Head up to Waukegan for this special art exhibition! 🤍

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Your endangered Great Lakes population of Piping Plovers had a record-breaking year with 88 nesting pairs. 1/3

🖼️: Julie Young (a beautiful painting of Imani, reference photo credit to Plovermother Tamima Itani) #ploverart #PloverAppreciationDay

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"A few years ago I was doing a 'scavenger hunt' and one of the tasks was to create an endangered species artwork using only edible things. Here is my Piping Plover made out of seeds, nuts, and peanut skins."
~ Your Chicago Piping Plover Monitor 🧡 Pam Litchfield Carmona
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Art serves as powerful historical record. This beautiful painting [reference photo credit to Wild Birds Unlimited] by Anne Essex, mother of one of your Chicago Piping Plover Monitors 🧡, takes us back to the Summer of 2023. 1/2 #PloverAppreciationDay #ploverart

"I took my graduate researcher Collett to Montrose Beach to watch the plover chicks grow up this summer. She's a scientist and an artist. She made this cute little water color painting of one of the chicks when they were teenagers. 😊 I love it so much. ❤️❤️❤️"
~ Tirzah Abbott
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As we continue Plover Appreciation Day celebrations with the theme #ploverart, here's a closer look at Sophie Lucido Johnson's lovely painting (reference photo credit to Phil Stosberg), which was recently gifted to Plovermother Tamima Itani by your Chicago Piping Plover Monitor 🧡 Kat.

We are loving this year's theme for Plover Appreciation Day, #ploverart. Your Chicago Piping Plover Monitor 🧡 Brenda Janish made these sweet treats for the monitor season-end bash. She had the mold made and decorated the cookies - perfection! 🤍

Happy Plover Appreciation Day!
Art/artists have a powerful role in conservation, evoking strong feelings and generating discussion.

To kick off our celebration of Plover Appreciation Day w/ this year's theme #ploverart, enjoy this enchanting drawing by your Chicago PIPL Monitor 🧡 Glenna Anderson.

And if you need inspiration, here is some #ploverart from previous years' young #ploverlovers - how good are these?

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Plover Appreciation Day art competition for kids aged 4-13. Submit entries to bnb.events@birdlife.org.au by 15 September 5pm AEST. With this art competition, we want to raise awareness of the plight of ground-nesting plovers through creativity among the little ones.

Less than a month for #PloverAppreciationDay on 16 Sept! We started dedicating #plovers this day back in 2015. We'll be celebrating 10th anniversary with an art competition for children. Entries by 15 Sept to bnb.events@birdlife.org.au. We'd love to see #ploverart on socials from all ages as well!