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The killdeer forms pairs on its breeding grounds right after arriving. [16] Both sexes (although the male more often than the female) advertise in flight with loud "killdeer" calls. The male also advertises by calling from a high spot, [17] scraping out a dummy nest, [18] and with killdeer flights, where it flies with slow wingbeats across its ...
The bird moves away from the nest site and crouches on the ground so as to appear to be sitting at a nonexistent nest and allows the predator to approach closely before escaping. [ 13 ] [ 18 ] [ 30 ] Another display seen in plovers, [ 13 ] as well as some passerine birds, [ 14 ] [ 15 ] is the rodent run , in which the nesting bird ruffles its ...
This bird resembles the killdeer but is much smaller and has only one band. [11] Since the semipalmated plover nests on the ground, it uses a "broken-wing" display to lure intruders away from the nest, in a display similar to the related killdeer. [12]
Charadrius is a genus of plovers, a group of wading birds. The genus name Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. They are found throughout the world. Many Charadrius species are characterised by breast bands or collars. These can be (in the adult) single complete bands (ringed, semipalmated ...
Protecting birds from impacts of development A pileated woodpecker works on a tree as Park Ranger Jesse A. Anderson leads a small group on the on the Third Wednesday Bird Walk at Carolina Beach ...
The piping plover (Charadrius melodus) is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches in North America. The adult has yellow-orange-red legs, a black band across the forehead from eye to eye, and a black stripe running along the breast line.
Plovers (/ ˈ p l ʌ v ər / PLUV-ər, [1] also US: / ˈ p l oʊ v ər / PLOH-vər) [2] are members of a widely distributed group of wading birds of subfamily Charadriinae. The term "plover" applies to all the members of the subfamily, [1] though only about half of them include it in their name. [1]
The trend in recent years has been to rationalise the common names of the Charadriidae. For example, the large and very common Australian bird traditionally known as the 'spur-winged plover', is now the masked lapwing to avoid conflict with another bird with the same name; and the former 'sociable plover' is now the sociable lapwing.