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The stop and go life of the killdeer, America’s shoreless shorebird

Posted on March 28, 2011 by

I usually hear them on my way back from work at night. With a high-pitched keen, a small dark shape would dart through the black of the unlit IM (intramural) fields in the corner of my eye. “Are those bats?” … Continue reading →

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