Whippoorwills

Some other birds on the declining list are Chuck-wills-widows (aka whippoorwills) and nighthawks. ❋ Opelika-Auburn News (2010)

One comes from some kind of bird squawking; another I happen to know is a night heron looking for a supper along the water's edge; then I suppose coons squabble when they meet, trailing over half sunken logs; a bobcat calls to its mate; the owls tune up; chuckwillswidows, the same birds that we call whippoorwills up North, you know, keep a whooping all the time; and there are all sorts of other noises that might stand for anything. ❋ St. George Rathborne (N/A)

Hit it hard before the aluminus flotilla hatch (aluminum canoes) and then spend sleepless nights chasing the hex hatch (hexagenia limbata mayfly) and listening to the whippoorwills in late June/early July. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The desire to escape the rat race, till the land, raise your own chickens, listen to the whippoorwills and otherwise escape the grind of city life has launched countless daydreams, many books and at least one highly annoying TV show: "Green Acres." ❋ Dave Shiflett (2011)

She called out to him several times but there was no sound except for the whippoorwills with their evening song. ❋ Mary Capps (2011)

As the whippoorwills began their evening tributes, he dreamed of Hattie and the life they had built together, and the love he had for his son. ❋ Laurinda D. Brown (2008)

They heard name-saying birds such as whippoorwills and phoebes. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

The bleatingof the sheep, the dripping branches that hung low in the swamp water, the “weird sounds” of the whippoorwills on moonlit nights—theyall contributed “to the general despairing effect.” ❋ MICHAEL KNOX BERAN (2007)

There “are nights here with the moonlight, cold & ghastly & the whippoorwills, & the screechowls alone disturbing the silence when I could tear my hair & cry aloud for all that is past & gone.” ❋ MICHAEL KNOX BERAN (2007)

Outside, the deep, round sound of the whippoorwills could be heard above the ruffle of crickets. ❋ Barbara Wright (2007)

The night life I want is the sound of owls and whippoorwills and lowing cattle. ❋ Unknown (2005)