Syracuse, N.Y. — A baby bird has life, liberty and the ability to pursue happiness this Fourth of July thanks to an observant and persistent Syracuse woman, with an assist from the city Public Works ...

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Berkeley Electric Cooperative officials say almost all the killdeer eggs in their parking-lot nest have hatched. As of yesterday, three of the four fledglings are up ...

Fifty years ago, almost every child growing up in rural North America knew the call of a killdeer. A loud "K'deer, K'deer, K'deer" would announce his presence in open fields, pastures, wetlands, ...

For one mother bird, the patch of shade from a boot-sized chunk of concrete is the most important place in the world right now. This is where one killdeer — a brown and white bird with lightning-speed ...

With a bright white breast, black rings on the neck and forehead, and large lustrous eyes, the killdeer is difficult to confuse with any other bird in our area. Note how easily the bird can blend in ...

A cat seen on video in Holbrook with a tin can on its head is expected to make a full recovery Thursday, while the night before a baby killdeer had to be rescued from a storm drain in Port Jefferson ...

We have reached that time of year when going to work in the morning becomes more difficult with every passing day. The world is waking up from its winter slumber and more and more items of interest ...

It was on one of our evening walks not long ago that my wife and I noticed at almost the same time that we couldn’t hear the killdeer screeching their usual warnings out to us. This summer’s heat has ...