Whippoorwill in a sentence as a noun

Well, maybe so but they say a stray dog come howling around Johnny Miller's house, 'bout midnight, as much as two weeks ago; and a whippoorwill come in and lit on the banisters and sung, the very same evening; and there ain't anybody dead there yet.

Whippoorwill definitions

noun

American nocturnal goatsucker with grey-and-white plumage