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killdeer Synonyms

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• noun (Context 1)

A medium-sized plover (Charadrius vociferus) native to the Americas, characterized by two distinct black breast bands, a loud, piercing call, and a famous behavior of feigning a broken wing to distract predators away from its nest.

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"While walking across the rocky pasture, we watched a plover perform a dramatic broken-wing display to draw our attention away from its camouflaged eggs."

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