Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1919 — The Whippoorwill. [ARTICLE]

The Whippoorwill.

It is almost impossible to see a whippoorwill in the daytime because of the manner in which It sits upon a limb of a tree. It doesn’t sit crosswise. like other birds, but lengthwise of the limb. Its toes are short, but broad-spreading, and It can sit lengthwise on a limb better than it could sit crosswise, where it would have to clasp the limb with its toes like other birds. You may pass right under a tree where a whippoorwill Is sitting on a limb and never notice it —and it knows it will never be noticed, so It doesn’t become alarmed and fly out of the tree.