Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Ohio, the shorebirds are one of the largest bird groups, with 47 species thus far documented. Most plovers and sandpipers – the ...

A Killdeer nest in a kindergarten playground at Wadsworth Elementary teaches compassion, adaptation, and conservation.

When most people think of fearless animal moms, they picture bears, lions, and elephants. Birds don't usually come to mind, but one tiny Killdeer is proving that courage has nothing to do with size.

Its Latin name, Charadrius vociferous, says it all: noisy plover. The killdeer, long-legged like its shorebird cousins, is America's most familiar and widespread plover, calling out "ka-dee, ka-dee, ...

You and someone else were sitting in a car on a quiet road, looking at mounds of compost, and you want me to believe that it was the birds that were doing all the snuggling. My parents weren't the ...

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 ...

Ann Mitchell was walking from her Flossmoor home to the train station May 28, on her way to a Coldplay concert at Soldier Field when she came across something unexpected. An unusual bird had made its ...

It's been a while since we've seen a killdeer. We chalked it up to the number of feral hogs in Arkansas, and their ability to eat a couple pounds of wild bird eggs in one gulp. The pig population in ...

MAHONING TWP. — They're back for a third time. Killdeer are nesting in stones along the parking lot of the office of Montour County District Judge Marvin Shrawder. He discovered two eggs in the nest ...

March 31 (UPI) --A utility company in South Carolina found a migratory bird nesting in a parking lot -- and the bird can't be moved due to federal law from 1918. The Berkeley Electric Cooperative said ...

CHICAGO -- For four years, Lockport, Illinois, residents Ray and Shelly Romolt have stared out their window at an empty lot, waiting for the day developers would transform it into a home for new ...

In Ohio, the shorebirds are one of the largest bird groups, with 47 species thus far documented. Most plovers and sandpipers – the bulk of our shorebirds – are strictly pass-through visitors. Species ...