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Definition of Killdeers
1. killdeer [n] - See also: killdeer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Killdeers
Literary usage of Killdeers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of Ohio: A Complete Scientific and Popular Description of the 320 by William Leon Dawson, Lynds Jones (1902)
"... so perfectly were the eggs mimicked by their surroundings. Young killdeers
are delightful absurdities. Their strength is in their Taken in ..."
2. Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania: With Special Reference to the Food by Pennsylvania Ornithologist, Benjamin Harry Warren (1890)
"One—the killdeers—breeds in Pennsylvania ; the others which visit here, ...
The killdeers, and perhaps all, migrate at night. The spotted and pyriform eggs, ..."
3. Birds in Their Relations to Man: A Manual of Economic Ornithology for the by Clarence Moores Weed, Ned Dearborn (1903)
"The killdeers are their natural enemies, and formerly collected in large numbers
to fulfil the purposes of their mission."' The GOLDEN PLOVER breeds in the ..."
4. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"Quite a colony of killdeers was in existence near Springfield until after ...
This year (1910) a pair of killdeers built a nest almost under the walls of a ..."
5. A World of Green Hills: Observations of Nature and Human Nature in the Blue by Bradford Torrey (1898)
"One of the killdeers gave me a pretty display of what I took to be his antics as
a wooer. I was returning over the grassy hills, where on the way out a ..."
6. Two Bird-lovers in Mexico by William Beebe (1905)
"Their whistling cry as they alighted was the signal for the killdeers to leave.
There was never any open hostility displayed between the two species, ..."
7. Bird-nesting in North-West Canada by Walter Raine (1892)
"It was early morning, and the place was alive with curlews, godwits, killdeers
and other birds that had come down from the high prairies to feed. ..."
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