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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.