Imagine running full speed with your mouth wide open to collect tiny food snacks flitting about in midair. Meet the common nighthawk, a shadowy figure – with blazes of white – that catches flying ...

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The common nighthawk is misnamed. It is neither common, nor a hawk, nor active at night. But the common nighthawk is close to all of these. It is conspicuous wherever it occurs. It hunts on the wing, ...

The common nighthawk is a misnamed bird. It does not belong to that group of birds commonly known as hawks. It lacks their gripping talons and tearing mandibles. Nor, strictly speaking, is it a bird ...

The curious common nighthawk is actually not a hawk, and in Teller County it’s not very common, either. They are a member of an odd group called nightjars that are more closely related to owls. Like ...

I recently spent several days birding and camping around Steens Mountain in Oregon. One of the terrific birds in the extensive juniper forests of that region is the bullbat, more commonly known as the ...

In late August, I start to look for migrating common nighthawks. Some years I don't see any but occasionally I get lucky; and if I am really lucky, it can be quite a spectacle. Common nighthawks ...