Tag: killdeer
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Unlikely yard birds; not so unlikely mates
Published September 4, 2021, McAllen Monitor. Peculiar environmental events can provide interesting habitat up-sets . . . .
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Killdeer, Masters of Deception
by M. Kathy Raines A reedy, insistent whine of “Kill-dee!” alerted me to this handsome plover with its roundish head, signature double breast bands and dark, massive eyes ringed with flaming orange. Pacing the shallows of a receding resaca, this plover, a killdeer—so-named for its namesake cry—probed the mud with its pointed beak, then halted,…