#commonnighthawk — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

#bird #birds #birding #nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife

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

#bird #birds #birding #nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife

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

#bird #birds #birding #nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife

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

#bird #birds #birding #nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife

#CommonNighthawk flew over our house this evening going peent peent peent. Last bird species to arrive in Portland on spring migration, and not always an easy one to find. Officially the start of summer!
#Birding

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)

#SouthAmerica
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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)

#SouthAmerica
#Movebank #birdsofmastodon #Commonnighthawk #ArcPro #migration

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)

#SouthAmerica
#Movebank #birdsofmastodon #Commonnighthawk #ArcPro #migration

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)

#SouthAmerica
#Movebank #birdsofmastodon #Commonnighthawk #ArcPro #migration

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)

#SouthAmerica
#Movebank #birdsofmastodon #Commonnighthawk #ArcPro #migration

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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