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.