Notes ²

More often seen than heard, these are the things that make those loud eerie sounds at night. Check out "flight call" and the second "alarm calls" here:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/killdeer/sounds

They like athletic fields and schoolyards and making a ruckus.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Stewart Ho, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/71429581@N00/287782863
2. (c) sea-kangaroo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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