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Precocial birds, such as ducks, the wild turkey and bobwhite, lay many — up to 20 — eggs in a nest on the ground and incubate them for 21 days or more. Chicks emerging from these eggs are covered with down and can run about as soon as they dry off. The adults don’t feed them but lead them to food. There they feed themselves.
The killdeer, a precocial bird, is only an inch or so longer than a wood thrush, yet the female lays an egg twice the size of the thrush. The wood thrush built a well-constructed nest to contain and protect both the eggs and young. The killdeer’s nest is on the ground where there is little protective vegetation; it consists mostly of a few artfully arranged pebbles and bits of twig.
The killdeer, a strikingly marked plover with two black bands across the white breast and rufous-red tail, is a familiar bird of open fields and the edges of farm ponds. The most unusual aspect of killdeer behavior is the “broken wing” distraction display of the bin! when the nest is threatened.
The bird runs along the ground, dragging a wing and making piteous cries. A fox or raccoon follows the “iryured” bird, sure of an easy captime and a meal. The killdeer leads the predator farther and farther from the nest until, suddenly, it recovers and flies into the air with a jubilant kill-dee, kill-dee. At this point the predator has probably forgotten where the
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