Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
The Killdeer is one of the most common and widespread members of the plover family of shorebirds in North America. Many non-birders know about these birds in part because they often nest near humans, in parks or even gravel parking lots, and when approached with eggs or young on the nest pretend that they are injured, make a loud scene of trying to "get away" while really luring you away from their young. This photo is of a Killdeer doing its "broken wing" distraction performance.
Killdeer live up to their scientific species name, vociferus with their "kill-deer" calls that can be heard from great distance.
They are out "two breast band" plover as you can see on the photos below.
In the Puget Sound area of western Washington, U.S. where I live some of the Killdeer overwinter, so are among the few shorebirds we have year around.
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