Killdeer Paneendra BA originally shared: Killdeer Canon Powershot Sx50 HS Grant Lake, California, USA 30 Jul, 2017 -- The killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a medium-sized plover. The genus name Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek kharadrios a bird found in ravines and river valleys (kharadra, "ravine"). The specific vociferus is Latin and comes from vox, "cry" and ferre, "to bear". The adults have a brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with two black bands. The rump is tawny orange. The face and cap are brown with a white forehead. The eyering is orange-red. The chicks are patterned almost identically to the adults, and are precocial — able to move around immediately after hatching. The killdeer frequently uses a "broken wing act" to distract predators from the nest. It is named onomatopoeically after its call. --#BTPBirdPro +BTP Bird Pro +Best Top Photographer Group#hqspbirds +HQSP Birds curated by +Suzi Harr​ +Mark Rayner +Andy Brown#Birds4All by +Ricky L Jones +Walter Soestbergen (+Birds4All) #birdsgallery +Birds GALLERY +Heinrich Wagner​ +Susan Wilkinson​ +Robert SKREINER +BIRD LOVERS Worldwide #birdloversworldwide #BeautifulBeautifulBirds +Beautiful Beautiful Birds by +William Joers#PhotoManiaIndia curated by +Chandro Ji#birdloversandwildlife by +Robert SKREINER#BirdPoker by +Phil Armishaw View full size (1600x900)

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