For my #BigDay I'm posting the #CommonNighthawk I saw earlier tonight.

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Common Nighthawk

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Camouflaged to blend into daytime roosts. Intricately patterned with gray and brown. Often roosts along tree branches or on the ground. Feeds at night on large insects. Watch for them flying under bright lights at ballgames or supermarkets. Distinctive fluttering flight style, with wings usually held in a V-shape between bursts of flaps and maneuvers to snatch insects. Very similar to Lesser and Antillean Nighthawks; note voice and location of white wing patch close to base of primaries.

Photographer: Ronnie d'Entremont

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Nighthawk, Daytime

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Toot for #day12 of the #30DayMapChallenge for South America showing migration patterns of the Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor). The data is available on Movebank under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC).

From the authors, two-thirds of their annual cycle that unfolds is in South America. (Cockle KL, Villalba O, Fariña N, Bodrati A, Pagano LG, Stein E, Norris AR. 2023)

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What?

I found this sleeping bird in Galveston, Texas. I took the photo and didn't put much more thought into it until today because I dismissed it as a pigeon or some other more common bird. But after examining more closely, I think this might be a common night hawk (Chordeiles minor). I also looked at fledgling great horned owls but dismissed it as less likely.

"On warm summer evenings, Common Nighthawks roam the skies over treetops, grasslands, and cities. Their sharp, electric peent call is often the first clue they’re overhead. In the dim half-light, these long-winged birds fly in graceful loops, flashing white patches out past the bend of each wing as they chase insects. These fairly common but declining birds make no nest. Their young are so well camouflaged that they’re hard to find, and even the adults seem to vanish as soon as they land." - allaboutbirds.org

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