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- Eastern whip-poor-will - Wikipedia
"The Mountain Whippoorwill" is a poem written by Stephen Vincent Benét about a fiddling contest, won by Hillbilly Jim, who refers to his fiddle as a whip-poor-will and identifies the bird with the lonely and poor but vibrant life of the mountain people
- Eastern Whip-poor-will | Audubon Field Guide
Often heard but seldom observed, the Eastern Whip-poor-will chants its name on summer nights in eastern woods The song may seem to go on endlessly; a patient observer once counted 1,088 whip-poor-wills given rapidly without a break By day, the bird sleeps on the forest floor or on a horizontal log or branch
- Whippoorwill | Description, Range, Facts - Britannica
whippoorwill, (Caprimulgus vociferus), nocturnal bird of North America belonging to the family Caprimulgidae (see caprimulgiform) and closely resembling the related common nightjar of Europe
- Eastern Whip-poor-will - All About Birds
Made famous in folk songs, poems, and literature for their endless chanting on summer nights, Eastern Whip-poor-wills are easy to hear but hard to see Their brindled plumage blends perfectly with the gray-brown leaf litter of the open forests where they breed and roost
- Eastern Whip-poor-will (EWPW) | Land Trust Bird Conservation . . .
Eastern Whip-poor-wills breed throughout the eastern U S from Northern Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina up through the northeastern U S and southern Canada reaching Ontario and Nova Scotia In the wintering season they migrate across the southern U S to settle across the Gulf Coast
- Eastern Whip-poor-will - eBird
Listen for namesake song, a whistled "whip-poor-WILL," repeated endlessly Found in forests, often with a mixture of pines and deciduous trees with open areas nearby for foraging Forages for flying insects from the ground at night Intricately patterned with gray, brown, and black
- Eastern Whip-poor-will - ID, Facts More | Birdzilla
These small creatures prefer to live in deciduous and mixed forests, especially those with open understories and a diversity of tree species The Eastern Whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vociferus) is a fairly small, mottled gray and brown nightbird with a dark stripe on its crown and a narrow white mark on its throat
- Eastern Whip-Poor-Will - Facts, Diet, Habitat Pictures on . . .
Eastern whip-poor-wills are carnivorous (insectivorous) birds They feed on various insects including moths, beetles, mosquitoes, flies, bees, and wasps Eastern whip-poor-wills arrive on their breeding grounds in March They nest on the ground, in shaded locations among dead leaves, and usually lay 2 eggs at a time
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