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  2. Common nighthawk - Wikipedia

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    The hunt ends as dusk becomes night, and resumes when night becomes dawn. [13] Nighttime feeding (in complete darkness) is rare, [ 4 ] even on evenings with a full moon. [ 13 ] The bird displays opportunistic feeding tendencies, although it may be able to fine-tune its meal choice in the moments before capture.

  3. If You See a Hawk, Here's the True, Unexpected Significance ...

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    Hawk in flight. With their broad wingspans and sharp talons, hawks are some of the most regal birds in the skies. But beyond their powerful physical qualities, hawks hold deep spiritual meaning ...

  4. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    This article should specify the language of its non-English content, using {{}}, {{transliteration}} for transliterated languages, and {{}} for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriate ISO 639 code.

  5. List of nocturnal birds - Wikipedia

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    Diurnality, plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day and sleeping at night. Cathemeral, a classification of organisms with sporadic and random intervals of activity during the day or night. Matutinal, a classification of organisms that are only or primarily active in the pre-dawn hours or early morning.

  6. Shikra - Wikipedia

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    He placed it with the eagles, hawks and their relatives in the genus Falco and coined the binomial name Falco badius. [2] Gmelin's description was based on the "brown hawk" from Ceylon that had been described and illustrated in 1776 by the English naturalist Peter Brown. [3] The shikra was formerly placed in the large and diverse genus Accipiter.

  7. Spotlighting - Wikipedia

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    Persian fallow deer in Dasht-e Naz Wildlife Refuge.. Spotlighting or lamping (also known as jacklighting, [1] shining, [2] illuminating, pit-lamping, and the killing lamp) is a method of hunting nocturnal animals using off-road vehicles and high-powered lights, spotlights, lamps or flashlights, that makes special use of the eyeshine revealed by many animal species.

  8. Hunting for Ghosts, Metaphors and Meaning: A cemetery ... - AOL

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    This article, Hunting for Ghosts, Metaphors and Meaning: A cemetery stroll with ‘The Minorities’ author Suffian Hakim, originally appeared on Coconuts, Asia's leading alternative media company.

  9. Onomatopoeia - Wikipedia

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    The symbolic properties of a sound in a word, or a phoneme, is related to a sound in an environment, and are restricted in part by a language's own phonetic inventory, hence why many languages can have distinct onomatopoeia for the same natural sound. Depending on a language's connection to a sound's meaning, that language's onomatopoeia ...