“Monty was a wild animal and nature is a very violent and precarious place. We are not in control of that. But to have been in the place to experience (Monty and Rose), that is a gift.'
Monty’s legacy will be the chicks he and Rose brought into the world, seen in 2020.
Borns immediately connected with agency partners at U.S. Fish and Wildlife and had the presence of mind to think to ask staff at the nearby Montrose Dock restaurant for ice and other materials needed to collect and transport Monty’s body. A group including Borns and lead plover monitor Tamima Itani, who had raced back from a birding festival in Indiana, rushed Monty to Lincoln Park Zoo for testing.
“Monty was a wild animal and nature is a very violent and precarious place. We are not in control of that. But to have been in the place to experience , that is a gift. I’m grateful to have helped create the space that attracted them here and I feel a great privilege to have been part of the experience and the lessons they imparted,” she said.“This incredibly rich habitat has been conserved and expanded over 22 years and provided an opportunity for endangered birds to nest.
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