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Common Poorwill
Owls and Nightjars
Common Poorwill
Phalaenoptilus nuttallii
Summer
Owls and Nightjars

Like all nightjars, this species is seldom seen during the day and at night it is mostly identified by its night cry in arid hills, a repeated ‘poor-will’. It has short legs and rounded wings and jumps from the ground to catch nocturnal insects.
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