Learn how the kildeer uses a distraction display to lead a predator away from the nest by faking a broken wing.

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 and someone else were sitting in a car on a quiet road, looking at mounds of compost, and you want me to believe that it was the birds that were doing all the snuggling. My parents weren't the ...

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PITTSVILLE, Md. -- A family of Killdeer birds has found a home at the Pittsville Playground, leading one section to be temporarily closed off. The bird is protected under the U.S. Migratory Bird Act.

NEW MILFORD — Some feathered guests have made themselves at home on the borough's Kennedy Field. A killdeer, a brown migratory bird with bands of white and black, has laid several eggs in recent days ...

"A citizen was walking the grounds and happened to see a momma bird dragging her wing, making all this noise, which is what a Killdeer bird does when you approach the nest," said Camden Police ...

Marina High School in Huntington Beach may be the home of the Vikings but for the next three to four weeks the campus will make room for a tiny new feathered guest. "Maybe it's a sign of something," ...

Mission accomplished and fingers crossed. In an operation that puts a human house move to shame, a killdeer nest containing four eggs has been moved about 25 metres to a safer spot on the Ottawa ...