How to Use killdeer in a Sentence

killdeer

noun

• That day, a lone killdeer was spotted in the field, poking around the mud.
  — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
• There, the crop continued to grow while white-faced ibis and killdeer birds loitered around the water.
  — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
• Birdwatchers saw the tiny bird in a standoff with one of the larger plovers, after which the killdeer flew away.
  — Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
• The news outlet reported that state wildlife officers received a tip that a hunter shot and killed a killdeer on the first day of dove season.
  — Michael Guise, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2025
• Beilke said killdeer are a type of shorebird considered close relatives to the endangered piping plovers best known in Chicago for their appearances on Montrose Beach.
  — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 10 June 2026
• On its website, the IUCN notes the killdeer population is high now, but is expected to decline across the next three generations by more than 20%.
  — Audrey Pachuta, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2026
• The piping plover, a shorebird found in Indiana along Lake Michigan, looks similar to its bigger relative, the killdeer, which is more commonly found across Indiana in wide-open spaces like fields and even parking lots.
  — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 3 Dec. 2025