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nighthawk

  1. Common Nighthawk (I believe)

    Common Nighthawk (I believe)

    I happened to spot this lovely creature on the wire overhead while driving home, and, of course, had to go and get my camera. I've seen nighthawks before, but they're always high and fast-moving, identifiable by wing shape and bars more than anything. Never seen one perched. This seems like an...
    • Tired
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    • chordeiles minor common nighthawk nighthawk
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: North America
  2. Common Nighthawk

    Common Nighthawk

    One of several nighthawks just sitting on a gravel road.
    • raulqc
    • Media item
    • chordeiles minor florida nighthawk
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: North America
  3. Nighthawk

    Nighthawk

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

    Nighthawk

    Nighthawk resting in a wetland in northern Montana.
    • Mross
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    • caprimulgiformes chordeiles minor chordeilinae goatsuckers lesser nighthawk nighthawk nightjars nyctiprogne
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  5. 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
  6. Common Nighthawk

    Common Nighthawk

    Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor)
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • common nighthawk robinson texas usa
    • Comments: 14
    • Category: North America
  7. Sand-colored Nighthawks

    Sand-colored Nighthawks

    Sand-colored Nighthawks (Chordeiles rupestris rupestris)
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • lodge manu nighthawk sand-colored
    • Comments: 17
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  8. Sand-colored Nighthawk

    Sand-colored Nighthawk

    Sand-colored Nighthawk (Chordeiles rupestris rupestris)
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • lodge manu nighthawk sand-colored
    • Comments: 14
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  9. Common Nighthawk

    Common Nighthawk

    Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor)
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • anahuac common nighthawk texas usa
    • Comments: 17
    • Category: North America
  10. Common Nighthawk

    Common Nighthawk

    Migrants from North America. Every year they come back to the same trees here in Brasilia.
    • Rodrigo Conte
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    • caprimulgidae chordeiles common minor nighthawk
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  11. Nighthawk

    Nighthawk

    Resting Nighthawk
    • bwbird
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    • nighthawk
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  12. Bug Zapper

    Bug Zapper

    • CurtMorgan
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    • male nighthawk
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  13. Common Nighthawk

    Common Nighthawk

    Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor aserriensis) Twelve subspecies have been described with 8 or 9 being recognized dependent upon author. Four are mapped for Texas with aserriensis breeding from South-central Texas to northern Mexico. These four subspecies can usually be separated by...
    • Stanley Jones
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    • aserriensis chordeiles common county jones minor nighthawk san patricio sanctuary texas usa
    • Comments: 25
    • Category: North America
  14. Common Nighthawk

    Common Nighthawk

    This is not as sharply focused as I would like. The bird was quite a distance away, I was handholding and there was nothing in the vicinity I could use as a support platform, and I had to heavily crop the image to fill the frame. In any event, this was a first for me so I thought I would share...
    • Dwooddon
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    • canyon ferry lake montana nighthawk
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: North America
  15. Nacunda nighthawk

    Nacunda nighthawk

    I was walking through a field, when I froze in my tracks, after realizing there were over 50 nacunda nighthawks roosting all around me.
    • nigel lallsingh
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    • nighthawk
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: The Caribbean
  16. Sleeping nighthawk

    Sleeping nighthawk

    This photo was taken from a boat on the Amazonia river. the bird was sleeping, just open eyes for us than back to sleep. You can see here landscape of this area http://www.valeryschollaert.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=825&Itemid=370
    • Valéry Schollaert
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    • amazonia engoulevent minime nighthawk
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  17. Common Nighthawk

    Common Nighthawk

    Common nighthawk camouflaged at morning. At Fort Morgan on the Alabama Gulf Coast.
    • neonflamingo
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    • alabama nighthawk nocturnal
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: North America
  18. Antillean Nighthawk

    Antillean Nighthawk

    Local Name: Querequeque
    • raulqc
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    • antillean nighthawk chordeiles gundlachii nighthawk
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: The Caribbean
  19. Protecting Junior

    Protecting Junior

    I've been told this was a Common Nighthawk, due to the placement of the wing spot.
    • JimFaires
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    • nighthawk
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: North America
  20. Juvenile Nighthawk

    Juvenile Nighthawk

    This is probably a Common Nighthawk. I spotted it several times on the ground at the school where I teach.
    • JimFaires
    • Media item
    • nighthawk
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: North America
  21. Male Antillean Nighthawk

    Male Antillean Nighthawk

    • NIGHTJAR1
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    • antillean nighthawk chordeiles gundlachii vicinus male nighthawk nightjar
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: The Caribbean
  22. Male Antillean Nighthawk in flight

    Male Antillean Nighthawk in flight

    • NIGHTJAR1
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    • antillean nighthawk chordeiles gundlachii vicinus nighthawk nightjar
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: The Caribbean
  23. Sand-collored Nighthawk

    Sand-collored Nighthawk

    A flock was resting at day time on trees and bushes at the edge of a flooded forest on an island in the Amazon River near Santarm.
    • dacol
    • Media item
    • amazon nighthawk olympus raynox
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  24. a real goatsucker

    a real goatsucker

    Common Nighthawk chick, sitting placidly among the hot rocks.
    • atricapillus
    • Media item
    • caprimulgids nighthawk
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: North America
  25. Nacunda Nighthawk

    Nacunda Nighthawk

    This nighthawk was resting on the top of a bush in a flooded field near a channel on the Amzon river near Manaus.
    • dacol
    • Media item
    • nighthawk podager
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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