kildeer

The girls and I will encourage the barn swallow fledgings, chatter with the nervous kildeer, pitch rocks over the tiny pier, and run along the abandoned shore.

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The girls and I will encourage the barn swallow fledgings, chatter with the nervous kildeer, pitch rocks over the tiny pier, and run along the abandoned shore.

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Before dinner, we will go to the beach and watch the swallows swoop and dive and the kildeer fret and the robin fledglings flip, flop, flee; we'll leave footprints in the damp sand on the edge of the gently lapping lake; and we'll lob rocks over the pier.

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A belated kildeer broke the night stillness with its cry.

The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916

It brought the tears into Daisy's eyes at length; the song of the kildeer came so close home into her heart.

Melbourne House 1907

The robins especially were very busy, whistling about in and under the trees; and a kildeer, quite near, from time to time sung its soft sweet song; so soft and tender, it seemed every time to say in Daisy's ears, What if I am sick and in pain and weary?

Melbourne House 1907

The kildeer-plover, which loves a similar locality, also drops its eggs there, and fills the air above with its din.

Cape Cod 1865

The minute's hush; the low twitter -- answered softly from bush and tree; the soft chiming in of other notes; the swelling, quickening, increasing song -- till every sparrow and kildeer in all Pattaquasset drew his bow and clattered his castanets with the speed and the eagerness of twenty fiddlers.

Say and Seal, Volume II Susan Warner 1852

The slight rustle of leaves now and then was as often caused by a butterfly or a kildeer as by the breeze; sometimes by a heavy damask rose that suddenly sent down its rosy shower upon the ground.

Say and Seal, Volume II Susan Warner 1852

It brought the tears into Daisy's eyes at length; the song of the kildeer came so close home into her heart.

Melbourne House Susan Warner 1852