Additionally, listen as air rushes through the feathers of the common nighthawk in flight, making a whooshing sound. Bird sounds courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ...

The common nighthawk ... When a male nighthawk wants to impress a female, he performs repeated steep dives, pulling up just short of the ground. The air rushing past his feathers creates a deep ...

We have all three species in St. Johns County. Our nighthawk is a jay-sized bird about 10 inches in length. They have mottled grayish-brown feathers, a long forked tail and long pointed wings with ...

Flying just overhead with its distinctive swift, sashaying motion and white wing patches was a common nighthawk ... feeding on the wing, nighthawks have modified feathers around the base of ...

WAUWATOSA - It started as a trickle of three common nighthawks ... oval white patches on their feathers, long-pointed wings and an erratic flight pattern, nighthawks are among the easiest ...