common nighthawk
Discovered this when adding keywords to images. Taken June 22, 2008 at 19:30.
This is heavily cropped from original image. A tighter crop becomes distractingly pixelized.
Added: Somervell County, TX, near Glen Rose. ( I thought metadata uploaded)
Lat 32.1306 Long -97.8548
Looks like a nightjar but field marks are confusing. We have three nightjars in this area: Common nighthawk, common poorwill and chuck will's widow, the latter two usually identified at night by call. Wing and tail shape here don't look at all like nighthawk, but per guides the other two lack white wing bars. So it's a a mystery
common nighthawk
Discovered this when adding keywords to images. Taken June 22, 2008 at 19:30.
This is heavily cropped from original image. A tighter crop becomes distractingly pixelized.
Added: Somervell County, TX, near Glen Rose. ( I thought metadata uploaded)
Lat 32.1306 Long -97.8548
Looks like a nightjar but field marks are confusing. We have three nightjars in this area: Common nighthawk, common poorwill and chuck will's widow, the latter two usually identified at night by call. Wing and tail shape here don't look at all like nighthawk, but per guides the other two lack white wing bars. So it's a a mystery