Imani the piping plover!!! If you're not from Chicago or in any group chat with me, you may not know why he's such a big deal, but just know there's less than 200 Great Lakes piping plovers in the wild
He was hanging out super close to the fence that separates his protected area from the public beach and keeping the volunteer Plover Monitors busy trying to keep people 8ft away.
At one point one of the monitors asked a guy to step back when Imani started scurrying towards him
"Please, we're trying to give him lots of space, he's very endangered"
And the guy kind of gestures that the bird is the one closing the distance.
"Yeah, he doesn't know he's very endangered"
