Killdeer
Charadrius vociferus
Summary 2
The killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a medium-sized plover. The genus name Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek kharadrios a bird found in ravines and river valleys (kharadra, "ravine"). The specific vociferus is Latin and comes from vox, "cry" and ferre, "to bear".
Fuentes y créditos
- (c) USFWSmidwest, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY), https://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwsmidwest/5614152584/
- (c) Wikipedia, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charadrius_vociferus
