Identification - The breeding male is about the size of a robin with a mottled body of browns, blacks, and grays. Good field marks are the rusty collar and the white tips to the outer tail feathers. The wings lack white patches characteristic of the Common Nighthawk.
Morsels - The Whip-poor-will begins its call about dusk and continues for one or two hours. It then begins to call again around 2:00 a.m. and continues until dawn. It is common to hear it call 50 or more times and some of these birds have been recorded calling over 1,000 successive times.
