Nocturnal Birding (Eastern Whip-poor-will)

About this episode

This episode focuses on the Eastern Whip-poor-will and includes discussions and sounds from a nocturnal hike.

At the end of the very first episode of this season I mentioned we’ve be coming back to the nocturnal portion of that hike, and here we are! This’ll be less birdsong, more talk and waiting in the quiet, I’m going to talk a bit about the Eastern Whip-poor-will. I’ll make reference to some bat sounds, but I couldn’t quite make them audible in the recording this time around. Stick around to the end for a surprise song right at the conclusion of my hike. eBird Checklist for the outing this was recorded during: https://ebird.org/checklist/S115082556 Download Merlin Bird ID today: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/ Credits Songbirding: The Allegheny National Forest is a Songbirding Studios production. Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter. The Songbirding cover art (Blackburnian Warbler) is by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062 Creative Commons music is from Axeltree. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

People in this episode

Host: Rob Porter

Topics covered

• nocturnal birding
• Eastern Whip-poor-will
• bat sounds
• hiking
• birds
• nature

Keywords

• nocturnal birding
• Eastern Whip-poor-will
• bat sounds
• hiking
• birds
• nature
• eBird
• Merlin Bird ID

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: eBird, Songbirding Studios, Axeltree

Products: Merlin Bird ID

Books & works: Eastern Whip-poor-will

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