Killdeer are quite common in the Midwest and certainly found throughout Minnesota. They are uniquely adapted to living in the wide-open spaces. — This is the opinion of outdoors columnist Jerry ...

JOHNS ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - Chicks are beginning to emerge from a killdeer nest located at the Johns Island site of the Berkeley Electric Cooperative. An update on Wednesday from the agency says three ...

The killdeer’s preference for nesting in open areas — fields, golf courses, abandoned industrial sites, parking lots, gravel driveways, roadsides — has allowed it to thrive near humans all ...

While mowing, Darla Tyler-McSherry encountered a killdeer that endeavored to drive her away from its nest. She wished she could have done the same to the suicidal thoughts that plagued her father.

The killdeer is named for its loud, high pitched vocal call of kill-deear or kill-dee-dee-dee. More often than not, this call is made while the bird is on the ground, ...

The killdeer is a familiar bird, perhaps as well known as the robin. Like the robin, it is a reliable sign of spring. The killdeer signals spring in places other than the robin, however.

Killdeer are easy to identify. They are robin-sized plovers with brown heads and backs and pure white breasts and bellies. What makes them especially easy to identify are the two dark brown ...

Although the killdeer is a shorebird, it is often found in plowed fields far from water, pastures, golf courses and other grassy areas. Jim Gilbert's Nature Notes are heard on WCCO Radio at 7:15 a ...

When a shrieking killdeer, wing askew and tail spread, went limping off into the parking lot at the Virginia Beach Convention Center, the bird certainly caught Diana and Bob Struckmeyers' attention.