Photo 43072555, (c) Martin R. Lucas, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Martin R. Lucas

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Photos / Sounds

What

Eastern Whip-Poor-Will (Antrostomus vociferus)

Observer

martinlucas

Date

June 2019

Description

I flushed a pair of whip-poor-wills while out photographing insects. They were lurking in a little brushy area in a sand prairie. One flew off, this one stayed and did a wing fluttering display with clucking sounds from a conspicuous limb -- also showing a white tail patch. I didn't see the 'nest' but typically it's little more than eggs on some oak leaf litter. Photos aren't that great, but I had a macro lens on the camera, and it was interesting to capture the distraction display behavior.

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