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From: ted@teldata.UUCP (Ted Becker)
Newsgroups: net.rec.birds
Subject: Re: Killdeers
Message-ID: <349@teldata.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-May-84 14:29:58 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 21 14:29:58 1984
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Killdeers do nest on the ground.  When they are nesting the female will do
a very convincing broken wing act to lure an intruder away from the nest.

When I grew up in northern Indiana and central Illinois these birds where
fairly common.