nightjar in English
Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars , cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
Use "nightjar" in a sentence
1. Churring nightjars The call of the nightjar The nocturnal nightjar is one of our strangest birds
2. Churring song of a nightjar coming from the woodland …
3. Yes, there the nightjar will settle and find a place of rest.
4. So if you are lucky enough to see a Churring Nightjar it is likely to be a distant silhouette.
5. Various analyses place them sufficiently close to the Apodiformes to be included here, or into the unique owlet-nightjar lineage in the Cypselomorphae.
6. In the pennant-winged nightjar, the P2 primary is an extremely long (but otherwise normal) feather, while P3, P4 and P5 are successively shorter; the overall effect is a broadly forked wingtip with a very long plume beyond the lower half of the fork.