🤏 The Common Poorwill is the smallest North American nightjar, with short, rounded wings and a short tail with small white outer tips. In the same family as the Eastern Whip-poor-will and Chuck-will’s-widow, the Common Poorwill shares their nocturnal habits and onomatopoetic name. 🎶 Its cryptic plumage of mottled gray and brown provides excellent camouflage, and its large, dark eyes are well-adapted for vision in low light. 🌌👀 But this nightjar also has a unique behavior all its own; in fact

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The Common Poorwill is a ground-dwelling, nocturnal, flying-bug-eating bird that is closely related to the Eastern Whip-poor-will. A migratory native of Montana, Common Poorwills rank among the least understood avian species. That's due largely to their love of the nightlife, a fondness for remote, rugged areas, and an almost supernatural ability to camouflage themselves during the day. These video clips catch our mysterious neighbor in two of its primary activities - eating and singing. The fir

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