The Eastern whip-poor-will is a vocal night-time forager who is attuned to the moon

Close up of whip-poor-will shows face feathers blending from black to gray to light beige. — Eastern whip-poor-wills have black whiskers on their mouths called rictal bristles that they use to sense the vibration of insects. (Photo courtesy of Rebecca Reader-Lee/iNaturalist CC BY-NC, cropped and toned)

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Thank you for the informative article!!!
It is May in South Georgia and boy howdy the whippoorwills have been talking up a fog recently!!!!

We live in Sudbury and since moving to our new home on the lake we have heard the whippoorwill, this summer they are very intense- it feels like all night long! A little annoying but signs of spring????

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