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!,” ...

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 ...

My wife and I were picking strawberries on a farm near Lizella in Bibb County last weekend when I noticed a brownish, dove-sized bird struggling between the rows of strawberry plants. It seemed barely ...

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. Robins hop ...

It happened again, just like I'd seen three years ago. This time it was in mid-March, when we had the nine to 10 inches of snow and everything was canceled. After shoveling a path to get the car out ...