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Discover the mysterious lives of nighthawk birds

These creatures of contradiction aren’t hawks and aren’t the most active at night, but nighthawks are birds worth knowing ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Nighthawks swoop out of Greek myth

HOT SPRINGS -- National Park College students chose Nighthawks as the school's mascot last fall -- the first mascot for the institution since 2003. The school doesn't have varsity sports, but college ...
The Roanoke Times

Birding: Fall migration begins with nighthawks’ calls of ‘peent’ in evening air

Late summer brings the first big migration event of the waning year in the southern Appalachians: the annual southward journey of the nighthawks. This bird, known for its spectacular aerial circuses ...
The Victoria Advocate

Hard to tell the common, lesser nighthawks apart

During the late spring and summer, you may have noticed a bird flying around at dawn and dusk catching insects in the air. If it had long, tapered wings with a white stripe across them near the end, ...