Killdeer

But with a little practice, you will be able to jot down syllables which will help you to recall bird songs.

The well-known names Chickadee, Phoebe, and Killdeer are all permanent records of this very sort of syllabization of bird songs, an attempt to write down what the bird is saying.

Sometimes a bird will be heard again and again before it is seen.

If my notes concerning songs are at all accurate, some of these will help you to find birds which you might have difficulty in identifying from appearance alone.

When the two species fly up, the solitary usually utters two or three loud, sharp whistles as it flies directly away or up into the air.

The spotted, on the other hand, usually flutters away just a little above the water and customarily circles back to the shore not far away.

Killdeer Oxyecus vociferous vociferous Linnaeus Other names Killdee Killdeer plover Description Three toes, size of robin, forehead patch over eye, throat, ring around neck, and underparts white.

The breast crossed by two prominent black bands, forepart of crown and line from bill under eye blackish.

Eventually.

Let's get into Act 4, the Killdeer explanation.

I'm not 100% sold on the Killdeer thing.

I'm not.

But we will see.

Let's get into it, everybody.

This is Act 4.

Act 4, the Killdeer Explanation.

So that was good to know.

Yeah, Kildare.

Yeah.

And I have such an affinity for those birds that aren't the brightest.

And that's Kildare, you know, putting their...

The nest just out

in the parking lot of the yarn factory up the street.

You can still hear them.

But they're one of those early arrivals, so the snow is still on the ground when the Kildare arrives.

But later in the summer, they kind of blend in.

Yeah, and they

Once the threat passes, the bird springs back to life and escapes.

Killdeer are famous for a related strategy, feigning injury rather than death.

A killdeer nesting on the ground will drag one wing as though broken, calling piteously and leading predators away from the nest.

Once a safe distance away, the injured bird miraculously recovers and flies off.