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(having male and female characteristics).
In keeping with their nocturnal hunting habits, Nighthawks are dark-colored and mottled, with white bars on the undersides of their wings, near the tips, and have rather large mouths. By day they roost quietly, well-camouflaged, on the ground or lengthwise along tree branches. At nine-and-ahalf inches, they are easily distinguished in flight from swallows. the more common insectivores.
Like their fellow nocturnal hunters, owls, the Nighthawks wing feathers have evolved to allow quiet flight . However, during courtship males work against this trait by clapping their wings together loudly to attract females.
The flight of the Nighthawk seems erratic-long sweeps, often high in the sky, accented by sudden dives as it spots an insect. In Wyoming, Nighthawks seem to overcome their basically solitary nature and flock in mesmerizing, spirals flying up and down along the prairie.
Although I was bom and more-or-less raised in Virginia, I had never seen a Nighthawk before I moved to the Northern Plains nor after I came home, until that recent evening. Now every time I go near the spot along the creek where I first saw the Nighthawk, I look for it again. With no luck yet, I’m sorry to say. But I’ll keep looking.
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