DFO member Jared Del Rosso will explore the largely untold story of the Whip-poor-will, an almost mystical icon of early American culture. The species figured prominently in the seasonal lives of a largely still agrarian-oriented land. American musicians, poets and writers made the Whip-poor-will a legend. Country singers transformed the birds into icons of lonesomeness and rural life. Poets and nature writers wondered about the species' strange, menacing name. Horror writers spun Whip-poor-wills into the stuff of nightmares.
But today, they're on the brink of forgotten. Since the 1970s, Eastern Whip-poor-will numbers have fallen by more than two-thirds.
-- But today, they're on the brink of forgotten. Since the 1970s, Eastern Whip-poor-will numbers have fallen by more than two-thirds.
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