nightjar|nightjars in English
noun
species of insectivorous nocturnal bird from the genus Caprimulgus, goatsucke
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1. Churring nightjars The call of the nightjar The nocturnal nightjar is one of our strangest birds
2. Bullbats, Nightjars, and Goatsuckers
3. Churring song of a nightjar coming from the woodland …
4. Yes, there the nightjar will settle and find a place of rest.
5. Churring is the "song" that Nightjars make when they become active well after sunset
6. So if you are lucky enough to see a Churring Nightjar it is likely to be a distant silhouette.
7. Australian Owlet-nightjars make a variety of sounds, the most commonly heard calls include a series of soft Churring notes
8. Various analyses place them sufficiently close to the Apodiformes to be included here, or into the unique owlet-nightjar lineage in the Cypselomorphae.
9. Nightjars' eerie Churring is best heard starting at 2:15 in the video where we were agonisingly close! (unfortunately, despit
10. Like the unrelated swifts and nightjars, which hunt in a similar way, they have short bills, but strong jaws and a wide gape.
11. A sense of satisfaction comes from learning the names of not just imposing eagles, peacocks, and swans but also the easily overlooked nightjars and earthcreepers.
12. 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.