Close kin to the Whip-poor-will, the nocturnal Common Poorwill can be heard in summer in rocky scrublands of the West at the deep end of dusk. And the Common Poorwill's greatest claim to fame? It was the first bird confirmed to hibernate, based on evidence verified in 1946.
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