Common Nighthawk | Tiny Bill, Cavernous Mouth
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 พ.ค. 2024
- The first and only time I ever saw a common nighthawk was one day in early June of this year. I saw a bird perched on a limb of a dead snag, but think didn't too much of it. From a distance, it just looked like a mourning dove at rest, fluffed up with its neck retracted.
I almost moved on, but then thought I'd go ahead and give it a look through the camera lens. I'm so glad I did as what I discovered wasn't a puffed up dove, but a bird I had never seen before. This was a fantastic discovery.
I later identified it as the common nighthawk. Ever since then, I have been so intrigued by these birds and eager to see them again.
Their name "common nighthawk" is quite misleading. This bird isn't all that common, it isn't nocturnal and it isn't a hawk. It's not even in the hawk family. So what's the deal with its name?.....
Chapters
Introduction 00:00
A Misleading Name 00:46
Common Nighthawk Identification 01:56
Similar Species: Lesser Nighthawk 02:20
Similar Species: Eastern Whip-poor-will and Common Poorwill 03:28
Similar Species: Chuck-will's-widow 04:24
Length-wise Body Orientation 05:03
Tiny Bill, Cavernous Mouth & Tapered Wings 06:21
Special Eye Adaptations 07:34
Courtship: Dive and Booming Display 08:55
Nesting 10:31
Migration 12:05
Conclusion 12:42
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Common Nighthawk: Bobby Wilcox XC660470 xeno-canto.org/660470
Lesser Nighthawk: Paul Marvin XC554529 xeno-canto.org/554529
Eastern Whip-poor-will: Martin St-Michel XC319518 xeno-canto.org/319518
Common Poorwill Richard E. Webster XC710724 xeno-canto.org/710724
Chuck-will's-widow Ron Overholtz XC555492 xeno-canto.org/555492
Common Nighthawk peent and booming call Eric DeFonso XC581003 xeno-canto.org/581003
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Common Nighthawk on branch - USFWS Mountain Prairie - Flickr.com
Common Nighthawk on wire - Brian Henderson - Flickr.com
Common Nighthawk on branch - PaulReevesPhotography - Canva.com
Common Nighthawk on fence - gatito33 - Canva.com
Common Nighthawk on large branch - randimal - Canva.com
Common Nighthawk on metal railing - Annette Shaff - Canva.com
Common Nighthawk on Fence post - drferry - Canva.com
Common Nighthawk on Sign - USFWS Mountain-Prairie - Flickr.com
Common Nighthawk on wire fence - Brian Garrett - Flickr.com
Boom and dive display video clip: Jon Cox - Flickr.com
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Coyote - Harry Collins - Canva.com
Owl - All Things Birdie
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I was so lucky; I saw a little juvenile by my work. If I wasn't used to looking for bird-camo, I would've thought he was a rock. He was just adorable and let me get close (but I gave him space! I just wanted to make sure he was okay as I didn't know what he was at first.) so I could see his cute little grumpy face.
I got fantastic pictures of him and then a sibling appeared a few days afterwards! Now they fly with what I assume are their parents above the parking lot. Was a wonderful experience seeing such reclusive birds up so close. One of my favorites now!
9:58 Bird sounds like a spaceship with a futuristic gunner on it. Pretty amazing.
2:20 That bird is SO CUTE when it's sleeping! Those pictures of its eyes half open. 🤣
This is the best video on the nighthawk that I have seen, thank you! I had to deep dive into what could POSSIBLY make a noise like a whale's blowhold (to me) in the woods as the sun was going down, following me a ways down the lane!! I was freaking out due to the haunting, ethereal nature of how nonspecific it is, was hard to tell a location. But now it is likely I was walking near a nest and a male was trying to frighten me off. He must have had a good laugh watching me run back to the house the first time LOL - now it is a treat, the rare times I hear them in the summer here in the Olympix!! such a beautiful bird.😊
*@All Things Birdie* A hundred Thank Yous for this excellent piece of Natural Science. There is more information on the various members of the nightjar family than is found in several animal encyclopedias put together. I had no idea there are so many variations. And being that the crepuscular ones are just as illusive as the nocturnal ones, I wouldve never made the connection between the bird & its call. For example, the lesser nightjar (I dont use the word nighthawk) I mistook for some unknown kind of owl calling into the night. The call of the eastern whippoorwill I mistook for a quail
The only thing you left out is how these nightjars & whippoorwills are members of the same family as the swifts. I caught a chimney swift when I was 15, & theyve been my most favorite native bird ever since
Best of success to you & your channel. Im very glad to be first commentor for your excellent video 💜
Your deep dive into the common nighthawk gave much more understanding of them.
I really like the information on tapetum lucidum.
I used to hear the common night hawks and the Whippoor wills 50 years ago. They don't hear them around much anymore.
Thank you for making this video! It was very informative and thorough. You answered all my questions about them 😊
I love how they almost always perch horizontally and have squinty eyes! They're so cute!
What an extraordinary unique bird !. And all the others similar😮such differences in songs !. Never heard of them before, they don't exist in EU. Thank you for the share 👍🙏
Wonderful vid! A few years ago while walking my dogs I found a nighthawk dead alongside the road. The wings gave it away. I live in Michigan, and this is the only time I've seen what they look like.
I just Binged watched your entire series. Liked and subscribed. Keep on keeping on. 😁😁❤❤
Thank you so much!
I see them every year near summers end. They swoop about in my southern New Hampshire field feeding on the big dragonfly's who have been feeding on the smaller dragonfly's and after a half hour or so they disappear as quickly as they've come. This year they stayed longer than years past. I understand I'm located in a flyway towards their migration route.
Fantastic video!
Dankeschön für euren Beitrag.
Lesser nighthawk sounds like a Western screech owl…I’ve heard that call in the thick oak forests Santa Cruz Mountains of California but I’m sure it was an owl
Yes they are here but not as many as they used to be
❤ great information about these birds 🐦we have a few different species hear in south texas
I enjoy the lesser nighthawks near my home.
Now I know who's doing that trilling hereabout.
Could also be a western screech owl.
I don't think I have seen one yet, and I know I don't have any pictures of one. I have added this to the birds I need list so hopefully I will be able to find some.
Great job! I thought whipoorwill but it is chucks will widow
The roar is amazing. Do they exist in coastal Southern California such as in Orange County? I've seen them in the Rockies, but not in California. We see shallows hunting insects at dusk around lights in California.
The city is expanding
I just took my first video of a common night hawk
밤매 , rare bird
The eastern whiperwill has almost disappeared from eastern Tennessee I heard only 1 this spring and summer.Just a few yrs ago there were hundreds around.
Here too in northern Michigan. Years ago they were all over. Now if we hear one or two we are lucky.
@@celowski6296 I wonder what has happened to them?Anytime a species disappears it's not a good sign for our environment.Bobwhite quail has also disappeard completely.How is the ruffed grouse population in northern Michigan?
Same here i hope they make a come back soon.
So have cardinals. It's hard to take in the fact that the world has lost 1/4 of all birds since 1970! Mainly due to outdoor cats and habitat loss.
Outdoor cats have decimated bird populations, as have plastics, pesticides, and habitat loss. But outdoor cats are the biggest culprit.
When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, outdoor cats were killed by coyotes and eagles and hawks, and people kept them inside. There just weren't as many cats running around outside.
Night halk nighttime calls
This beautiful bird is shown as part of GODS wisdom,and grace.The bird resembles the whip er will .Thank you so much for this video.