* Chordeiles minor Common Nighthawk

The flight of the Common Nighthawk is erratic and jerky, as it attempts to prey on various flying insects.

* Common Nighthawk, Chordeiles minor

A partial list is: Common Loon, Great Blue Heron, American Bittern, American Black Duck, Wood Duck, Ring-necked Duck, Hooded Merganser, Common Merganser, Broad-winged Hawk, Ruffed Grouse, American Woodcock, Common Snipe, Spotted Sandpiper, Herring Gull, Barred Owl, Saw-whet Owl, Whip-poor-will, Common Nighthawk, Chimney Swift, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Belted Kingfisher, Tree Swallow, Bank Swallow, Barn Swallow, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Hairy Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Eastern Kingbird, Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Phoebe, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Alder Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Eastern Wood Pewee, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Grey Jay, Blue Jay, Common Raven, Common Crow, Black-capped Chickadee, Boreal Chickadee, White-breasted Nuthatch, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, Winter Wren, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher, American Robin, Wood Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Swainson's Thrush, Veery, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Cedar Waxwing, Common Starling, Red-eyed Vireo, Warblers, Red-winged Blackbird, Rusty Blackbird, Common Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Evening Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, Purple Finch, American Goldfinch, Dark-eyed Junco, Chipping Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow and Song Sparrow

The Common Nighthawk ( Chordeiles minor ) is a medium-sized crepuscular or nocturnal bird, whose presence and identity are best revealed by its vocalization.

With its horizontal stance and short legs, the Common Nighthawk does not travel frequently on the ground, instead preferring to perch horizontally, parallel to branches, on posts, on the ground or on a roof.

The Common Nighthawk shows variability in territory size.

The Common Nighthawk has long slender wings that at rest extend beyond a notched tail.

The Common Nighthawk measures 22 – 25 cm in length, displays a wing span of 21-24 ” / 54 – 61 cm, weighs 62-98 g, and has a life span of 4 – 5 years.

The American Orinthologists ’ Union treated the smaller Antillean Nighthawk as conspecific with the Common Nighthawk until 1982.

Up until the early 19th century, the Common Nighthawk and the Whip-poor-will were thought to be one species.

The latter ’ s call was explained as the nocturnal expression of the Common Nighthawk.

The Common Nighthawk is distinct from other caprimulguids with its showing of a forked tail ( includes a white bar in females ); long, unbarred, pointed wings with a distinguished white patch ; the lack of rictal bristles, and the key identifier – their unmistakable calls.

The Common Nighthawk resembles both the Antillean Nighthawk and Lesser Nighthawk.

The Lesser Nighthawk is a smaller bird and displays more buffy on the undertail coverts, where the Common Nighthawk shows white.

Breeding adults are like a smaller sleeker version of Great Northern Diver / Common Loon.

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Common needs that older adults may deny themselves, or ignore are the following:

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