When our daylight lengthens to about 11 hours and 40 minutes and the normal high temperature reaches into the upper 30s, many of us outdoor observers listen and look for the first migrating birds of ...

The most widely distributed and best known North American shore bird is the killdeer. Its name is derived from its very distinctive call, KILL- DEE or DEE-DEE-DEE. The bird will make this sound when ...

Not a myth, Fred. Birds really do perform the broken wing act. But don’t worry, there are still plenty of other myths out there and some are kind of scary, especially on social media. Don’t you miss ...

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 ...