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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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!,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

The arrival of March brings early signs of spring, indicated by changes in bird behavior. Birds such as Horned Larks, Cardinals, and House Finches begin singing and pairing off for nesting season.

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 ...

These two eggs may look a lot like Easter-egg candy, but they are not! I found these eggs the morning of April 8 at the edge of a rural road. The Easter Bunny didn't hide them. A small bird called a ...

In last week’s column, I focused on the black-necked stilt, an oddity in the shorebird family that few non-birders would have ever heard of. This week, my focus will be on the killdeer, which is ...

We have reached that time of year when going to work in the morning becomes more difficult with every passing day. The world is waking up from its winter slumber and more and more items of interest ...