nighthawk

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• Some species with large mouths and small bills, such as nighthawks, whip-poor wills, and the aptly named frogmouth owls, open their bills wide as they fly into insects, and the prey is captured in the birds’ gaping maws.
• Operation Nighthawk, " for instance, showed that someone grabbing a cab at Kennedy Airport runs a 66% risk of being overcharged for a ride to Manhattan.
• There is a glorious passage by Henry Thoreau of his encounter with a nightjar relative called a nighthawk. Country diary: Holt, Norfolk
• Aping the seventies, this bar is for lounging and proves very popular among the more sophisticated of nighthawks prior to later excesses of the night.
• The nighthawk belongs to the Family Caprimulgidae, a group of nocturnal and crepuscular birds also known as the nightjars.
• And now a memory was born within my brain; it was that of the cry of the nighthawk which had harbingered the death of Forsyth! The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
• Although the twin-engine J-20 is at least eight or nine years from entering air force inventory, it could become a rival to America's top-of-the-line F-22 Raptor, the successor to the Nighthawk and the only stealth fighter currently in service. China's Stealth Fighter May Use Technology From Downed U.S. Plane
• Mountain Stage, recorded live in Charleston, W.V. Though often labeled as blues music, The Nighthawks' signature fusion of rock, jump jazz and roadhouse blues is recognizable as roots rock in its truest form - even though the band was making it decades before the term existed. News
• Although this is desert, there is an incredible diversity of bird life along the river and in other areas of the park - mourning doves, American kestrel falcons, nighthawks and brown thrashers are just a few of the birds that call it home.
• She got her start in journalism as nighthawk at the Boston Globe. Millennials Are A Real Piece Of Work At Work