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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 22, 2008, at 8:05 PM, roxann wrote:

> And I've been hearing whiporwills :) I love it when they start their  
> calls, but sometimes the chorus of them can get so loud at night  
> that I can't get to sleep.

I need help on this whippoorwill thing. My memory of them in Wisconsin  
is that their sound trailed off at the end: whippoorwillllllll. Here  
in southern Missouri it is a hard, insistent sound, with the last of  
the three sounds up a couple notes. Quite jarring and unpleasant to my  
ear. Anyone know if there are two whippoorwills? Or shall we simply  
attribute my confusion to my imperfect memory?