Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
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chotacabras yanqui 1
The flight of the nighthawk is free and graceful in the extreme.
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Clearly it came through the still air-theeerie hoot of a nighthawk.
3
A nighthawk, wheeling overhead through the rain, sent down her discordant cry.
4
Through all the turmoil the nighthawk slept peacefully in the shade of a sage-clump.
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The black bat and the darting nighthawk were a-wing, grim spectres of the dusk.
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Now and then there was the bleat of a goat or the call of a bullbat, but that was all.
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They tell me that some folks call him Bullbat, though why they should call him either Bat or Hawk is beyond me.
3
"Like maybe you're as crazy as a bullbat?"
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For this reason it is sometimes called mosquito hawk.
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