A Killdeer taking flight to re-establish its performance comfort zone and to lure you further away from its nest site. The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, ...

It would be proper to describe the killdeer as pedestrian, in the sense that it goes about on foot, which is the literal and original meaning of the word. The word’s more recent use, to mean ...

Fifty years ago, almost every child growing up in rural North America knew the call of a killdeer. A loud "K'deer, K'deer, K'deer" would announce his presence in open fields, pastures, wetlands, ...

If you know where to look, right now is a good time to find killdeer; they are laying eggs and protecting their nests in obvious ways. The killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a shorebird that, while it ...

Its Latin name, Charadrius vociferous, says it all: noisy plover. The killdeer, long-legged like its shorebird cousins, is America's most familiar and widespread plover, calling out "ka-dee, ka-dee, ...

You never forget your first killdeer. Perhaps you heard its shrill and incessant “kill-deer” call for which the bird is named. Or you saw it fake an injury as it limped across a gravel parking lot.