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Eastern Whip-poor-will № 178

Eastern Whip-poor-will

Antrostomus vociferus

Calls its own name over and over, and John Burroughs once counted 1,088 with barely a pause. In New England lore it waits to catch the souls of the dying, and Lovecraft gave it that job in The Dunwich Horror.

Photo · Reuven Martin · public domain

Call · Daniel Parker · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · source · xeno-canto. Trimmed to 30 seconds, volume normalised.

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