[TN-Bird] lesser nighthawk?
- From: "Reese, Carol" <jreese5@xxxxxxx>
- To: "tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 15:45:52 +0000
Happened to be on a website concerned with nightjar research and conservation
and clicked on the sound recordings to listen to the different nightjars.
Here is the site: http://www.nightjars.org/learn
I am fairly certain that I have been hearing the call described at the lesser
nightjar's "toad like trill" in the evenings at my house in northern Henderson
County. I often walk the dogs out onto the driveway and listen for the
whippoorwills, and have on several occasions heard this trill, usually if I go
out just as dusk turns into dark. In fact, thought to myself about the
similarity of the call to American toad, but knew it was not, and thought about
how it reminded me of the screech owl's whinny, but yet very different.
Is there another bird that could make a sound like this? I see that it is not
usually found in Tennessee. Could the call be a variation by the screech owl?
cr
"There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot."
- Aldo Leopold<http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/43828.Aldo_Leopold>
Carol Reese
Ornamental Horticulture Specialist -Western District
University of Tennessee Extension Service
605 Airways Blvd.
Jackson TN 38301
731 425 4767 email jreese5@xxxxxxx<mailto:jreese5@xxxxxxx>
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