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Published: 2016-02-20 17:47:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 521; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 5
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Wikipedia implies that you can't tell the Common, Antillean, and Lesser Nighthawks apart from a single image like this, so we may never be able to tell which species.ΒThanks to the following for identifying it as a nightjar:
Cypselurus Spirit-whales PapierowySzczur LuckisGONE
See their specific comments in the comments section.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Florida.
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^^ Aww, its so adorable! Great picture!Β
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Thanks! Glad you like it
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^^ You're welcome!Β
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Could be Common Nighthawk- the sole nightjar (not counting Chuck-Wills-Widow) species recorded from that park.Β b50ym1n8ryw31pmkr4671ui1c64.wpβ¦
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Thanks!
That's probably a good guess, Wikipedia implies that you can't tell the Common, Antillean, and Lesser Nighthawks apart from a single image like this, so we may never know.Β
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I'm thinking this is an Antillean Nighthawk. It could also be a Lesser Nighthawk, but in your image the white throat is not visible, so I'm leaning towards an Antillean Nighthawk instead of a lesser. www.tsuru-bird.net/a_species/nβ¦
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Could be.Β Wikipedia implies that you can't tell the Common, Antillean, and Lesser Nighthawks apart from a single image like this, so we may never know.
Thanks!
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that's true! kinda like flycatchers (bane of my existance...)
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Yeah, I hang out with birders sometimes, but I am really a photographer first and those tiny birds are so hard to get, particularly under dark tree canopy
(so I never have to worry about identifying them 
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it reminds me a nightjar, but they're active at night.
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Yeah, the others seem to agree.Β Wikipedia implies that you can't tell the Common, Antillean, and Lesser Nighthawks apart from a single image like this, so we may never know.Β
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I have too little knowledge anyway.
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Thanks for the nightjar ID in any case
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It is a nightjar of some sort (not sure of exact species), it's just out during the day for some reason. Β This happens, even with strictly nocturnal species, for some reason or another.
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Wikipedia implies that you can't tell the Common, Antillean, and Lesser Nighthawks apart from a single image like this, so we may never know.
Thanks for the comment!
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No problem!
Figures as much would be true, there's a lot of species in different classes that look almost identical.
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