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Incredible!

No but my parrot did! 🦜

Purple martin!! Wow!

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They nest all over the farm tracks near me and every time the tractors come out, I cringe.

Also baby killdeer look like pompoms with legs and are absolutely adorable. (For some reason a killdeer decided to make an next on our driveway which resulted in us not using a good chunk of our driveway for a while)

Reminds me of this stunning African dance called Zaouli youtube.com/shorts/1n--g...

Very cute..

Are you referring to the midterm elections?

She needs some music for that fancy footwork.

Ingenious and slightly daft looking.

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Lots of Killdeers here in Manitoba. The mothers pretend they’re hurt and can’t fly to distract predators from their nests (on the ground) They flutter their wings, spinning around on the ground. When you get close to “injured” mom, she flies out of reach and does the ruse again 20 feet away.

She is amazing and beautiful.

Sounds like my Gen X upbringing.

Awesome

I love birds

Bird burnout.

That is fascinating to watch. So much of nature awes me. Thanks for posting!

Me on a treadmill

Do you think she does yard work? We need a new sandbox

In our neck of the woods, they lay their eggs in gravel. Very hard to see the eggs, but they do get run over sometimes because, well, parking lots.

They’re so cute when they run 🥰

Magnificent video

Thank you Joy! Your bird pics & accompanying info are a bright spot in these challenging days… Viva le Canada 🍁 🇨🇦

Cool

The animal kingdom has parental responsibility so precisely mapped out. Sorry parents with your 45yr old son still living with you neither working nor contributing to the running of the household either financially or in terms of effort. You made him. Suck it up.

So cute! 🥰 The dust makes me think of this:

I had a Killdeer nest in neighbors yard. The babies were so cute. The neighbors protected them because close to the street and we all were worried about them. The mother would pretend to be hurt to "lure" you away if you got close.

It kinda reminds me of those guys who used to build houses in the middle of nowhere on YouTube.🤣

Amazing

They are masters at broken wing performance. Luring would be predators away as they feign injury. I watched this survival dance many times as I wandered the open prairie . There cry a perfect echo of there name! Killdeer killdeer🎶

I got to see one pulling the "broken wing" trick once ( to lead me away from nest).

Those legs 🥰

Mind blowing!

Absolutely amazing! I got tired watching, but I couldn't look away!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Amazing

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cool birds, long legged and very distinctive when standing and I see them occasionally on my morning walks, usually in a culvert and they look like they are on stilts

Kildeer also protect their nests from both humans & animals by faking a wing injury. When someone gets too close to their nest, they start dragging their wing & calling out to lead potential dangers away. They stay just out of reach, then fly away once the danger is far enough away from the nest.

I have only seen nests on rocky/pebbly beaches. The speckled eggs blend almost perfectly with the rocks and the nest looks like nothing more than a slight depression. The tell is the adult nearby doing the broken wing ploy to lure you away.

How beautiful is that😍

Birds are fantastic engineers!

For years had a nest in my yard and I always thought the babies looked like a cotton puff on tooth picks running around the yard.

Make due with what you have to work with is the message..

Wow!

Absolutely me at the dance club back in the day

They put on the most amazing fake-injured-bird-decoy if something gets too close to their nest to draw attention from the babies.

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Yep

Not just shorebirds - I have seen them in Texas and inland Oregon as well. Love the pantomime of injury they do when danger approaches the nest.

That is one busy bird

pretty little civil engineer ✅✅

Lost count of the number of Killdeer nests I used to see in soybean fields here in South Dakota. The parents would always fly off to decoy me away.

Hard work, but she's determined to get it just right.

🤔🤨🤔 Hmmmm...I wonder if the inspiration came from watching Killdeer? youtube.com/shorts/1n--g...

this is what i need to be doing after the company lunch

Also called a "dove" if you're the George W Bush the Great White Hunter.

Beautiful bird

cutie pie