These creatures of contradiction aren’t hawks and aren’t the most active at night, but nighthawks are birds worth knowing ...

Trying to get a good photograph of a flying bird can be challenging, but imagine trying to do it at night? I was standing in a dusty desert parking lot late one night. The only illumination was a ...

During the late spring and summer, you may have noticed a bird flying around at dawn and dusk catching insects in the air. If it had long, tapered wings with a white stripe across them near the end, ...

In late spring and summer, you may have noticed a slim, brown bird flying around erratically at dawn and dusk catching insects. If it had long slender tapered wings with a thin white stripe across the ...

The Bulletin is a quarterly publication consisting of major articles based on original studies of birds and short communications that describe observations of particular interest. Each issue also ...

Common nighthawk, Chordeiles minor (formerly; Caprimulgus minor), often known as bullbats in many parts of the United States, for reasons that are unclear. This bird was photographed on a railing of a ...