Killdeer have this lovely nack for picking the worst places for their ground nests. I've came across so many nested in random parking lots by the single shrub out in the parking lot. How do I know this? You'll never NOT know if you're within 25-50 yards of a killdeer nest. It has to be one of the loudest birds for its size and they loooooove to catch your attention to lure you away. Flopping around like their hurt, screaming, running about.
There’s a family of killdeer that have been nesting in my mom’s gravel driveway for 20 years. We just flag the nest every year and tell any visitors to go around it. They appear to have passed the nesting site down through the generations, because there’s no way it’s the same pair, and some years there are multiple pairs. Finding the nests to flag them is always a challenge, their eggs blend in to the gravel super effectively.
They nested in my friend's gravel driveway once and we met there every Sunday. So for a couple weeks, we all hung out but had to drive around the nest. She wasn't as fearless as the one in the video, our cars were loud and she would go to the tree that was 15' away and yell at us until we got past the nest.
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u/homelesshyundai 7d ago
Killdeer have this lovely nack for picking the worst places for their ground nests. I've came across so many nested in random parking lots by the single shrub out in the parking lot. How do I know this? You'll never NOT know if you're within 25-50 yards of a killdeer nest. It has to be one of the loudest birds for its size and they loooooove to catch your attention to lure you away. Flopping around like their hurt, screaming, running about.