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Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 1758
Babies that we got a chance to see up close and personal this Spring.
The adults have a brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with two black bands. The rump is tawny orange. The face and cap are brown with a white forehead. The eyering is orange-red. The chicks are patterned almost identically to the adults, and are precocial — able to move around immediately after hatching. The killdeer frequently uses a "broken wing act" to distract predators from the nest.
Spotted on Jun 26, 2014
Submitted on Jul 21, 2014
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