Green Bay has a new comeback kid: the piping plover.
Piping plovers are small shorebirds that breed and nest on sandy beaches around North America. They are among the rarest birds in the country.
The Great Lakes used to be home to more than 800 pairs of these plovers, but the population dwindled as beach development and shoreline erosion disturbed their habitat. The species was listed as endangered in 1985, when only about a dozen pairs remained in the Great Lakes region…