Whippoorwills
Personal memory by Shannon Stoney
1984 • Tennessee
I used to hear a lot of whippoorwills when I was a child, especially when I was at camp. Then when I moved to my farm in 1984, I heard them a lot. Now I never hear them. Screech owls seem to be less common too. Coyotes, however, have greatly increased. Maybe they are eating the whippoorwill eggs. Whippoorwills nest on the ground.
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