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Plaintive and Penetrating
Welcome to Kill Fee. Not to be confused with the killdee or killdeer, which is described in Merriam-Webster as “a plover found throughout temperate No. America and in southern areas in migration to So. America, being about 10 inches long, grayish brown above, ferruginous in the rump, and white below and with two black bands on the breast and neck, and having a much-repeated cry that is plaintive and penetrating.”
Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bob Hines