Charadrius vociferus (Killdeer)
Isn't just beautiful looking at the leaves growing and baby birds cheeping in the spring and watching the frogs come out of their borrows and crawl out onto land. But for me i love watching the Killdeer come back from down South and come back from what i call it their "vacation" and have another generation of killdeer. I love seeing them hatch out running into fully fluffed chicks. So amazing. I first learned about these plover is when i witnessed a horrific accident happening to a mother killdeer. It is so terrible that you might cry. Here is the story: I was at meadows park at the construction area and i was just taking pictures of the scenery when i witnessed it. The teen was obviously speeding and in an instinct the killdeer mother died. It was so sad. But i took the babies in my care. Unfortunately there were 2 babies. I only managed to capture one. I brought it home and cared for it for the night. Then did some research on it. At the time i didn't know what it was thought it was a Quail. So i told my mom and she called a bird center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They said it was a Killdeer. So i looked up killdeer and found that they eat meal worms. Well of course i didn't have ant meal worms. That night it cheeped and cheeped all night long and i stayed up. The next morning i got ready for school.

The day I came home I realized the baby killdeer was gone. I asked my mom that she had dropped the baby killdeer off at the bird center. I was sad but also glad that the baby killdeer was gone to a nice and loving home.

Six months later- I received a letter from the Bird Center saying the bird is alive and they were going to release it the next day. I was so excited that it lived. Earlier on i doubted that it lived but now i knew that it was living a new life, a new beginning, a new generation. If you want to learn more go to YouTube and go to talkdudes45's channel and look up my killdeer videos.

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Hello animal lovers and viewers. This is my first blog on blogger.com. Have you ever seen a Killdeer? It's a type of Plover. Killdeers live and nest on the ground. It's basically just a little carved hole with pebbles. Nothing special. But one day of July 2, 2009, exactly i week ago from today I incountered 4 speckeled eggs, and right away i knew they were Killdeer eggs. This was't the first time i incountered them. Last year i witnessed a car run over a mother Killdeer. I desided to take it in and the next morning. My mom drove it to Bird Center of Washtenaw County, Inc and a year later got a letter back saying it survived and now is set free to live her life as a mother. Unfortunately they are on a very low supply of mealworms so i'm going to donate 10 dollors to the cause.
Well anyway a hole mob of kids approached the speckeled eggs (names not said) they didn't know that below them there was a clutch of 4 eggs so blended in that they almost stepped on them.i had to cover them with my shoe so they wouldn't step on them. Of course they saw them. They picked them up and literally tosses one back and forth like a ball of catch, but with a hatching egg! They then handed it to two teen girls. They screamed and tossed them in the air like a hot potato. Finally I tryed to get it away from them. Instead they cracked the shell. although the baby chick was in the process of hatching! Well I didn't know that at the time. I thought it was dead when the egg shell cracked open when the chick was developing. I took it the cracked egg home. On the way I thought i heard a "cheep" and then thought:"naa just imagining things." Then i heard it again. Then i knew it was alive!! I took it home and told my mom. i said it was cheaping, but she said i was imagining it. So i put the egg in a shoe box with easter egg stuffing and a light over it. I went out to fetch warmer things for it. When i left my mom went to have a look at it.
When i came back my mom said... "go in your room, your Killdeer is cheeping." And i said
"Told you."
So i went in and it was cheeping like mad! It took me a half an hour to help the chick out of the egg. It sat there to dry off. My mom said go put the pore thing back. i took the shoe box and walked it back to the mother Killdeer. (Killdeers, if you touch them the mom will come back!) So they met and i just checked to see if the others were hatching as well. I looked at the eggs and sure enough small cracks in the egg told me they were hatching. I left and had happy dreams that night. In the morning i went back to the site. All hatched!. With Killdeer they are born with their eyes open because they spend 3 weeks in thier shells, one week more than birds like Robins and Sparrows. I counted them 4 babies and mine was covered in fur. i could tell becauseit had more fur then the others. This conludes this Blog. Join me next time at http://pawsforcauserescue.blogspot.com