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#1 Curlybird

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Posted 08 April 2012 - 02:13 PM

Went to Starr Ranch Audubon Society (So CA) last night for an Owl Prowl to find owls - heard several barn owls but too dark to see. However, the truck we rode in illuminated this little guy in the road, which the manager of Starr Ranch ID'd as a Common Poorwill. Not the best of pics but it was dark!! At least I finally got a goatsucker on my list!

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#2 guy_incognito

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Posted 08 April 2012 - 02:34 PM

Congrats! I still am without any goatsucker on my list.

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#3 JimBob

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Posted 20 April 2012 - 07:07 PM

Is a nighthawk a goatsucker? Or just poorwills and stuff?

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Posted 20 April 2012 - 09:02 PM

Unless it has changed since my version of Sibley's, Nighthawks are goatsuckers.

Sibley lists eight goatsuckers: Common Pauraque, Common Poorwill, Buff-collared Nightjar, Whip-Poor-Will, Chuck-Will's-Widow, Common Nighthawk, Antillean Nighthawk, and Lesser Nighthawk.

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Posted 21 April 2012 - 08:07 PM

Curly, didn't you see a Common Nighthawk in your neighborhood? Or did that just turn out to be your lifer Purple Martin?
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