Birds are in trouble. Their numbers are declining even faster than previously believed. How can we help our feathered friends ...

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, N.Y. — While out on assignment Thursday afternoon, 2 On Your Side Photojournalist Penny Adams made an unexpected discovery on campus at the University at Buffalo — a bird’s nest ...

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 ...

Killdeer nest on the ground. They scrape a shallow depression in soil or gravel and may add a few pebbles or bits of ...

At the Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center in Jasper County the other day, I nearly stumbled upon a killdeer plopped down on a swath of bare, gravel-covered ground. I quickly realized that the bird was ...

You never forget your first killdeer. Perhaps you heard its shrill and incessant “kill-deer” call for which the bird is named. Or you saw it fake an injury as it limped across a gravel parking lot.

Spring is when most birds court, breed and raise young, and they must find — or build — a safe place for eggs and nestlings. Nearly all birds use a nest of some kind, but construction varies widely ...

The thunder rolled and lightning danced among the jagged peaks as a summer rainstorm soaked the alpine meadows of California’s Sierra Nevada. Our parkas were zipped tight and heads down as we plodded ...

The robin-sized Killdeer is brownish above and white below, with two dark neck bands that secure the identification of this species. Photo by Rhododentrites ...

These two eggs may look a lot like Easter-egg candy, but they are not! I found these eggs the morning of April 8 at the edge of a rural road. The Easter Bunny didn't hide them. A small bird called a ...

In last week’s column, I focused on the black-necked stilt, an oddity in the shorebird family that few non-birders would have ever heard of. This week, my focus will be on the killdeer, which is ...

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 ...