The nesting habitat of these birds is unusual. Rather than creating a nest, they lay their eggs on the ground or on flat gravel rooftops.

Are you tired of mosquitoes and other pests around your yard but hesitate to use pesticides? Learn about the bird that could take care of the problem for you.

The other day one of the city employees asked me what has happened to all the common nighthawks he used to see. At first I told him it was because they tasted like chicken, but I got to thinking ...

Nest boxes are important but to produce healthy populations of birds, creating habitat in our yards is of utmost importance.

But little is known for certain about the rise and fall of the whip-poor-will, common nighthawk and other nocturnal, ground-nesting birds known collectively as nightjars or goatsuckers.

Nighthawks are medium-sized birds and their presence is best revealed by their vocalization, which is a short, harsh, buzzing sound. They are for the most part invisible by day. The common ...

The Packery Flats area is used by least terns, snowy plovers, willets, black-necked stilts, common nighthawks and horned larks.

The common nighthawk is not exactly common. It is seen during the day as well as at night, and it isn't really a hawk. It is a member of the nightjar family, a cousin of the whip-poor-will and chuc… ...

A migrating flock of more than 1,000 common nighthawks moved through Wauwatosa on Monday evening, engendering hope for the declining species and injecting a sense of normalcy into human observers ...

Formerly a bird of open country, common nighthawks shifted nesting sites to urban gravel rooftops as open habitat was lost. Forty years ago they were a common sight and sound over New Hampshire ...

The common nighthawk males court females usually at dusk, by calling, circling and then swooping down, almost crashing into the intended nest site, McKay said.

The common nighthawk has many local common names besides its official one. Its very erratic and acrobatic flight compares to a bat’s flight, but since it’s much bigger, people called it the ...