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Tag: chordeiles

Common Nighthawk

Posted on November 11, 2020 by Pat Jaquith

by Pat Jaquith
pat@westvalleynaturalists.org

Common Nighthawks are unobtrusive birds that don’t demand much attention but whose presence makes the environment a little more people-friendly. We may hear them without ever seeing them. They have evolved to hide from predators, and that may be what makes them so unknown to us.

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