Outside work last week, Rene found a baby nighthawk under a car. (He has a weird affinity with birds; odd considering that as a child it was his singular joy to shoot them with his BB gun.) It couldn't fly and was in a bad place, so he grabbed it. At first, I thought it was not a baby, but an osprey. But then I saw it didn't have a hooked beak and
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