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Had the good fortune of witnessing some intriguing breeding behavior this
weekend, not sure how many folks get to see it or notice it when they do.
Around dusk I saw nighthawks "peenting" up in the sky over town and then
flying far up and swooping back down to almost the top of a flat-topped
building where rocketed back up again accompanied by a 'roar' of the
primaries as it broke the dive. Apparently over a female on the roof top.
It is an amazing sound and carries quite a distance. Bent's life histories
has great accounts of this behavior in its volume 1 on cuckoos, goatsuckers,
hummingbirds and their allies.
Keep your eyes and hears open out there and don't forget to send in that
breeding behavior to Aaron Boone.
Pete
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Pete Whan
Dir. of Community-based Conservation
The Nature Conservancy
Edge of Appalachia Preserve
3223 Waggoner Riffle Rd.
West Union, OH 45693
Ph. 937-544-2188
fax same
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