One of the signature sounds of country life, the raucous nighttime call of the whippoorwill, is fading in Connecticut.“We just don’t hear them as much as we used to,” said Dawn McKay, a ...

These birds are not hawks, and are actually related to the Eastern Whippoorwill. Like the whippoorwill, they are mottled brown and about the size of an American Robin, with long, pointed wings.