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What is a killdeer?

What is a killdeer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A North American plover (Charadrius vociferus) with a distinctive cry and territorial behavior that includes feigning injury to distract interlopers from the nest.
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In addition, killdeer, pipits and some shorebirds visit the grassy areas of landfills.
What impressed me was that I had never seen a killdeer act in this way before.
The killdeer always builds in a worn-out, pebbly pasture or in a bare, unused field.
Our family got to observe a male and female killdeer setting up their family in our green beans.
However, there were plenty of resident shorebirds hanging out in the lagoon as well, such as the American coot, killdeer, and American avocet.
A killdeer sweeping the lake close two o'clock one morning awakened him.

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