I recently spent several days birding and camping around Steens Mountain in Oregon. One of the terrific birds in the extensive juniper forests of that region is the bullbat, more commonly known as the ...

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The latter is especially poetic and reflects the nighthawk’s affection for both dawn and dusk. Data from the Breeding Bird Survey across North America show the number of nighthawks detected drops ...