The SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center is currently caring for two young killdeer after students found the eggs and mistakenly took them from their nest. Killdeers are ...

We have reached that time of year when going to work in the morning becomes more difficult with every passing day. The world is waking up from its winter slumber and more and more items of interest ...

COLUMBUS – An extraordinary photograph of a killdeer and its chick will be featured on the 2026 Ohio Wildlife Legacy Stamp, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of ...

Josh, who lived for about 3-5 years in the wild, was taken into the zoo in 2008 after being injured in the wild and deemed non-releasable.

With a bright white breast, black rings on the neck and forehead, and large lustrous eyes, the killdeer is difficult to confuse with any other bird in our area. Note how easily the bird can blend in ...

Fifty years ago, almost every child growing up in rural North America knew the call of a killdeer. A loud "K'deer, K'deer, K'deer" would announce his presence in open fields, pastures, wetlands, ...

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, ...

Students and faculty at Grace School were welcomed back from spring break by an unlikely guest - a killdeer had laid four eggs in the middle of the playground. "At first she was loud. I could hear her ...