nighthawk

• Records show Judge scolded Palin family members over "disparagement of the father" nighthawk: Hey squigg. —  MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
• But the hardy common nighthawk - common, that is, in the US - ended its odyssey when it was hit by a car shortly after touching down on the Isles of Scilly. —  Taipei Times
• Think of Walky as a 'nighthawk'!" —  How Janice Day Won
• A nighthawk, circling above their heads, broke the silence with his shrill, plaintive cry, and with a sigh of deep content Darrell turned to his friend What do you think of it?" —  At the Time Appointed
• And some day we perchance find the two dirt colored eggs on the bare ground, or the tiny young, like bits of rabbit fur, with only the earth beneath them and the sky above them, apparently as deserted and destitute as Romulus and Remus; and all this adds wonderfully to our interest in this strange bird, which is so common in the June woods The whip-poor-will is much like the nighthawk. —  Some Spring Days in Iowa

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