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!,” ...

Plovers generally are a group of shorebirds that typically go unseen by the average person. Mountain and piping plovers both are rare and state threatened, with specific habitat requirements. Other ...

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 ...

Last year, I saw several nesting killdeer in a gravel parking area at a ski area. It has been suggested that nesting in such an open area gives the killdeer an extended view so that it can quickly ...

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 ...