What is the difference between killdeer and plover?
killdeer | plover |
A North American plover (Charadrius vociferus ) with a distinctive cry and territorial behavior that includes feigning injury to distract interlopers from the nest.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 50:
As nouns the difference between killdeer and plover
is that killdeer is a North American plover (Charadrius vociferus) with a distinctive cry and territorial behavior that includes feigning injury to distract interlopers from the nest while plover is any of various wading birds of the family Charadriidae.killdeer
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Alternative forms
* killdee * kill-deerNoun
(en-noun)- A kill-deer , flying so low as to dip its wings, ever and anon alighted on the margin, its stilt-like legs half submerged as it ran hither and thither, now and then bending to dig in the sand with its long slender bill.