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

A common nighthawk rests during the day. These birds tend to be active only at night. During the late spring and summer, you may have noticed a bird flying around at dawn and dusk catching insects in ...

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, ...

A female Common Nighthawk. In 2023, there were four confirmed nests in Concord and three of them failed after heavy rains and extreme heat TakeMeOutside-cm-082424,ph02 As August wanes, many people ...

Trying to get a good photograph of a flying bird can be challenging, but imagine trying to do it at night? I was standing in a dusty desert parking lot late one night. The only illumination was a ...

In late spring and summer, you may have noticed a slim, brown bird flying around erratically at dawn and dusk catching insects. If it had long slender tapered wings with a thin white stripe across the ...

Both farmers and desert dwellers are likely to have seen these birds of summer that feast upon insects as they wing over open spaces across much of the Southwest. Most often encountered at dusk and ...

What looked like a knob on top of a fence post recently at the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge east of Houston turned out to be a common nighthawk. My wife, Kathy, spotted the bird as I was gazing ...