• Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it.

    Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
Where premium quality meets exceptional value. ZEISS Conquest HDX.

lesser nighthawk

  1. Lesser Nighthawk

    Lesser Nighthawk

    Lesser Nighthawk (Chordeiles acutipennis texensis) perched on an overhead power line.
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • brazos county bryan chordeiles acutipennis texensis east rudder fwy and trophy drive lesser nighthawk texas usa
    • Comments: 10
    • Category: North America
  2. Common Nighthawk Flying

    Common Nighthawk Flying

    Lesser Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) flying.
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • brazos county chordeiles acutipennis texensis college station lesser nighthawk longmire drive rock prairie road texas usa
    • Comments: 11
    • Category: North America
  3. Lesser Nighthawk

    Lesser Nighthawk

    Bacurau de asa fina Com Carol e guiados por Jackson Classificação Científica Reino: Animalia Filo: Chordata Classe: Aves Ordem: Caprimulgiformes Família: Caprimulgidae Vigors, 1825 Espécie: C. acutipennis Nome Científico Chordeiles acutipennis (Hermann, 1783) Nome em Inglês Lesser Nighthawk
    • Francisco Paludo
    • Media item
    • brasil brazil chordeiles acutipennis lesser nighthawk
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  4. Lesser Nighthawk

    Lesser Nighthawk

    Roosting in empty lot next to our hotel and allowing ridiculous approach.
    • birdboybowley
    • Media item
    • chordeiles acutipenneis ecuador lesser nighthawk
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  5. Nighthawk

    Nighthawk

    Nighthawk in take off mode.
    • Mross
    • Media item
    • caprimulgiformes chordeiles minor chordeilinae goatsuckers lesser nighthawk nighthawk nightjars nyctiprogne
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  6. Nighthawk

    Nighthawk

    Nighthawk resting in a wetland in northern Montana.
    • Mross
    • Media item
    • caprimulgiformes chordeiles minor chordeilinae goatsuckers lesser nighthawk nighthawk nightjars nyctiprogne
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  7. Nighthawk

    Nighthawk

    Nighthawk was trying to catch a nap on a stick in a wetland in northern Montana.
    • Mross
    • Media item
    • caprimulgiformes chordeiles minor. chordeilinae goatsuckers lesser nighthawk nighthawk nightjars nyctiprogne
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  8. Common Nighthawk

    Common Nighthawk

    Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Chambers County, Texas, USA. Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Area. Near welcoming center.
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • anahuac chambers county chordeiles acutipennis lesser nighthawk subsp. texensis texas usa
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: North America
  9. Lesser Nighthawk

    Lesser Nighthawk

    Lesser Nighthawk (Chordeiles acutipennis subsp. texensis) Photographed in Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Chambers County, Texas, USA. Gulf prairies and marshes at ca. 2 m (6.6 ft) elevation.
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • chambers county chordeiles acutipenneis lesser nighthawk subsp. texensis texas usa
    • Comments: 18
    • Category: North America
  10. Lesser Nighthawk

    Lesser Nighthawk

    Lesser Nighthawk (Chordeiles acutipennis subsp. texensis) Anauhac National Wildlife Refuge, northwest of High Island abutting East Bay, Chambers County, Texas, USA. Coastal marshes and prairies at 2-3 m (6-10 ft) elevation.
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • anauhac national wildlife refuge chambers county chordelles acutipenneis east bay high island lesser nighthawk subsp. texensis texas usa
    • Comments: 29
    • Category: North America
  11. Lesser Nighthawk

    Lesser Nighthawk

    Lesser Nighthawk (Chordeiles acutipennis subsp. littoralis) Sexes similar. Photographed along the shoreline of Catie lake at Universidad Catie (Centro Agronmico Tropical de Investigacin y Enseanza) Turrialba, Cartago Province, Costa Rica at 638 m (2,093 ft) elevation. Surrounding area is a...
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • cartago provi chordeiles acutipennis lesser nighthawk subsp. littoralis universidad catie (centro agronmico tropical de investigacin y enseanza
    • Comments: 23
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  12. Lesser Nighthawk

    Lesser Nighthawk

    Lesser Nighthawk (Chordeiles acutipennis subsp. texensis) Sexes similar. Photographed in Ro Grande Village, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas, USA. Disturbed Ro Grande riparian at ca. 571 m (1,872 ft) elevation.
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • big bend national park brewster county chordeiles acutipennis lesser nighthawk subsp. texensis texas usa
    • Comments: 21
    • Category: North America
  13. Lesser Nighthawk

    Lesser Nighthawk

    In August of this year I spent about a week birding in southern California. One very hot midday, just outside the visitor center of the Sunny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge, I noticed this Lesser Nighthawk silently flying about, as if it had been disturbed and was seeking a suitable...
    • Gordon Hodgson
    • Media item
    • digiscoped lesser nighthawk salton sea
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
  14. A NEW BIRD FOR B.C.

    A NEW BIRD FOR B.C.

    On June 5 I was 50 miles offshore of Vancouver Island photographing albatrosses and other pelagic birds. I was surprised to see a nighthawk flying towards me. It turned out to be Lesser Nighthawk which was the first ever sighting for B.C. and 2nd ever for Canada.
    • mikyip
    • Media item
    • lesser nighthawk
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  15. Lesser Nighthawk

    Lesser Nighthawk

    This is a first for me! Was down by the Salton Sea and happened upon this bird.
    • LzyPhotographer
    • Media item
    • lesser nighthawk
    • Comments: 12
    • Category: North America
  16. Lesser Nighthawk in flight

    Lesser Nighthawk in flight

    This isn't a really great picture, but it shows the placement of the white patch on the wings.
    • Michael W
    • Media item
    • lesser nighthawk
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: North America
  17. Lesser Nighthawk

    Lesser Nighthawk

    Taken just before sunset.
    • Michael W
    • Media item
    • lesser nighthawk
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  18. lesser nighthawk

    lesser nighthawk

    a bird for the database. this lesser nighthawk was on the daytime roost high in a tamarisk tree.
    • richard bledsoe
    • Media item
    • lesser nighthawk
    • Comments: 12
    • Category: North America
Back
Top