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Tom Murray | profile | all galleries >> Birds >> North American wild birds >> Goatsuckers & Swifts tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Goatsuckers & Swifts

Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus
Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus		 Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus
Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus		 Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus
Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus		 Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus
Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus
Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus
Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus		 Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus
Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus		 Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus
Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus		 Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus
Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus
Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus
Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus		 Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus
Eastern Whip-poor-will - Antrostomus vociferus		 Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor
Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor		 Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor
Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor
Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor
Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor		 Chimney Swift - Chaetura pelagica
Chimney Swift - Chaetura pelagica		 Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor
Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor		 Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor
Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor
Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor
Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor		 Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor
Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor		 Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor
Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor		 Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor
Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor
Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor
Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor		 Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor
Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor		 Chnimney Swift - Chaetura pelagica
Chnimney Swift - Chaetura pelagica

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Don06-Jun-2017 22:55
I'd not thought of it this way before, but you show a striking resemblance between nighthawks (we known them as nightjars) and swifts. And I see in the latest bird phylogeny that they are quite closely related, so perhaps it is not merely a coincidence of lifestyle.
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