{"id":7132,"date":"2005-02-28T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/?p=7132"},"modified":"2015-05-18T11:14:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T15:14:34","slug":"killdeer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/archives\/7132","title":{"rendered":"killdeer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Definition.A small aquatic bird allied to the plover, \u00c6gialites (Oxyechus) vociferous, which takes the name from its cry. It is of a light-brown color above, the feathers being tipped with a brownish red, and has a black ring round the neck. It is found both in North and South America.  \u2014 Webster, 1882<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/tbl_bullet.gif\"\/> <em>All day the curlews and killdeers and sandpipers  chirped and sang in the creek bottoms.  &#8211; Little House on the Prairie, Chapter 25, &#8220;Soldiers&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/reedlik.gif\" align=\"right\" \/><span style=\"float: left; color: #6384bd; font-size: 44px; line-height: 35px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; font-family: Times, serif, Georgia;\">T<\/span>he killdeer or kill-deer (<em>Charadrius vociferus<\/em>) is a medium sized plover, one of the most widely seen shorebirds in North America, although they are also found far from the shore &#8211; even on the Kansas prairie. The bird has a brown back and black bands across its white breast. These birds often nest close to where there are people, so they have developed what is called a &#8220;distraction display&#8221; to lure predators away from the nest. They chatter loudly and hop about as if they have a broken wing, but they take off if the predator gets too close. The name &#8220;killdeer&#8221; comes from the sound the bird makes.<\/p>\n<p>The killdeer was one of the birds the Ingallses heard chirping and singing in the creek bottoms in Indian Territory (see <em>Little House on the Prairie<\/em>, Chapter 25, &#8220;Soldiers&#8221;), along with meadow larks, curlews, sandpipers, and mockingbirds. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/tbl_book.gif\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>killdeer<\/strong> (LHP 25)<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small aquatic bird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[636],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7136,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions\/7136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}