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are white to creamy, or pale pink, sometimes with darker mottling. Both sexes incubate for 20–21 days to hatching, with another 20–23 days to fledging. There is usually one brood per year, but females may sometimes lay and incubate a second clutch within 100 m of the first nest while the male feeds young at the first site. The young are semiprecocial. An adult disturbed on the nest tumbles and opens its mouth, hissing, apparently imitating a snake.
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for extended periods (weeks to months). This happens on the southern edge of its range in the United States, where it spends much of the winter inactive, concealed in piles of rocks. This behavior has been reported in
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632:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22689735A93245859.en
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759:Proceedings of the United States National Museum
849:. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
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427:. It is resident in southern Baja California.
57:Recorded in Great Basin National Park, Nevada
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941:Birds of the Great Basin: A Natural History
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1034:Field Guide to the Birds of North America
780:. London: Christopher Helm. p. 301.
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458:This is the smallest North American
306:and is not known among other birds.
3760:IUCN Red List least concern species
1032:National Geographic Society, 1987.
618:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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814:IOC World Bird List Version 10.2
736:Check-List of Birds of the World
681:10.1111/j.2007.0908-8857.04116.x
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3770:Native birds of Western Canada
965:Bagemihl, Bruce (2000-04-10).
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3410:Phalaenoptilus nuttallii
1138:and their extinct allies
1070:Arizona State University
840:Phalaenoptilus nuttallii
669:Journal of Avian Biology
625:: e.T22689735A93245859.
611:Phalaenoptilus nuttallii
279:Phalaenoptilus nuttallii
225:Phalaenoptilus nuttallii
3790:Birds described in 1844
938:Ryser, Fred A. (1985).
449:, 1947 – central Mexico
3746:poorwills are the best
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3714:Paleobiology Database
1006:The Birder's Handbook
885:www.allaboutbirds.org
855:10.2173/bow.compoo.01
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343:Caprimulgus nuttallii
338:. Audubon coined the
259:Caprimulgus nuttallii
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293:Many northern birds
1534:Protocypselomorphus
709:Audubon, John James
549:name of this bird,
375:meaning "plumage".
369:meaning "moth" and
66:Conservation status
1498:Steatornithiformes
1075:Jaeger's discovery
847:Birds of the World
838:"Common Poorwill (
804:; Donsker, David;
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397:P. n. californicus
320:John James Audubon
316:formally described
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806:Rasmussen, Pamela
787:978-1-4081-2501-4
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2939:Sternoclyta
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1968:Aegialornis
1928:Apodiformes
1778:See below ↓
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1330:Hydropsalis
1309:Caprimulgus
1302:Antrostomus
802:Gill, Frank
638:11 November
496:hibernation
454:Description
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328:Fort Pierre
304:hibernation
3754:Categories
3727:Xeno-canto
3334:Hydrochous
3327:Collocalia
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3265:Hirundapus
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1982:Procuculus
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2460:Adelomyia
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2370:Coeligena
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1642:Nyctibius
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1427:Lurocalis
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1372:Setopagis
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467:nightjars
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3176:Apodidae
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2932:Panterpe
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2384:Ensifera
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572:insects
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