Whippoorwill bird

Whippoorwill, Whip-poor-will, birds of north america, Caprimulgus vociferus

whippoorwill - John Sill

23-25 cm (9-10") Fairly common but local. Cottage country bird; open woods, canyons. Nocturnal. Nests on forest floor where birds are well camouflaged. Feeds on flying insects. Mottled gray-brown; short, rounded wings without wing patches; rounded...

Ya know, hard to get motivated when you get the Bird-of-the-Day at dawn? Tough. We will focus on that bird shortly. After we get the other routine documented birds recounted. We actually had two BOTDs. Winds were out of the Northeast and clearing skies made for good flying weather so we weren't expecting a ton of birds today. However, we did fairly well in the long run. As mentioned, the first good bird was caught at 6:20 AM, just after opening nets. Then things grew quiet for a while and we…

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Nightjars, Potoos, Frogmouths, Owlets and Oilbirds are a funny looking group similar to owls.

© Mark J M Wilson 2008 all rights reserved I stayed late to listen for Whip-poor-wills in the dark earlier this week...this one posed very nicely at the side of the road. It was so compliant that I had to crawl back a little to fit it all in the frame! Lit by car headlamps only.

This copyright free illustration of a Whippoorwill catching a bug is from page 3118.. From the public domain book, The Home and School Reference Work by The Home and School Education Society, copyright 1917.

The whippoorwill chose its own moniker. Sort of. Like the killdeer and the bobwhite, the whippoorwill was named after the call it makes. Cottagers are