Or you saw it fake an injury as it limped across a gravel parking lot. Then you might have wondered, what’s a stilt-legged shorebird doing in a parking lot? Now is the time to start looking out for ...
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, N.Y. — While out on assignment Thursday afternoon, 2 On Your Side Photojournalist Penny Adams made an unexpected discovery on campus at the University at Buffalo — a bird’s nest ...
Barbara & Dan Gleason Spring is when most birds court, breed and raise young, and they must find — or build — a safe place for eggs and nestlings. Nearly all birds use a nest of some kind, ...
The SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center is currently caring for two young killdeer after students found the eggs and mistakenly took them from their nest. Killdeers are ...
Killdeer seems a rather strange name for a bird, but it’s quite appropriate for this species of shorebird. When alarmed they belt out a piercing call that sounds like “kill-deer! kill-deer!,” ...
With a bright white breast, black rings on the neck and forehead, and large lustrous eyes, the killdeer is difficult to confuse with any other bird in our area. Note how easily the bird can blend in ...
At the Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center in Jasper County the other day, I nearly stumbled upon a killdeer plopped down on a swath of bare, gravel-covered ground. I quickly realized that the bird was ...
Anglers and hunters pride themselves on the patience and perseverance put forth in pursuit of fish and game, but even the most diehard of outdoors folk could not face the prolonged severe elements a ...