Whip-Poor-Will - Animal of August 2015

14th page of my Explorer's Notebook for the Animal of the Month Event at

Here is a very funny bird, living mostly in the USA: the Whip-Poor-Will, named like this because of its funny song... you can learn more about it here: www.arkive.org/eastern-whip-po… and listen to its song here, for example: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Wh…

Funnily enough, while it already has a weird name in English, it's even weirder in French: "Engoulevent bois pourri"... "Engoulevent" means "the one who swallows wind" or "the chatty one" and "bois pourri" means "rotten wood" ... the guy who thought up that name was really imaginative


made with:
Faber Castell Black Markers
Various colored pencils

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