What's a killdee? Well, it's a small olive-brown, white-bellied bird common to Texas that emits a sound like "killdee, killdee, killdee", hence its name. If you Google killdee you will find that the ...

If you know where to look, right now is a good time to find killdeer; they are laying eggs and protecting their nests in obvious ways. The killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a shorebird that, while it ...