nightbirds

The implication from these results is that Leptosomus is definitely not a 'core coraciiform' (and definitely not a roller) and that, while its precise affinities remain rather unclear, it represents some sort of ancient lineage that might lie within the region of the tree that includes 'nightbirds' and swifts, or piciforms and/or 'core coraciiforms'.

ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Darren Naish none@example.com 2010

Finally, there might be a hitherto overlooked metavian clade at the base of Neoaves: it includes such strange bedfellows as nightjars and other nightbirds, swifts and hummingbirds, kagus, pigeons, sandgrouse, flamingos and grebes, mesites, hoatzins and tropicbirds.

Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006

Finally, there might be a hitherto overlooked metavian clade at the base of Neoaves: it includes such strange bedfellows as nightjars and other nightbirds, swifts and hummingbirds, kagus, pigeons, sandgrouse, flamingos and grebes, mesites, hoatzins and tropicbirds.

Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin Darren Naish 2006

Local nightbirds swooped and flittered silently through the arches.

The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007

As the still ocean paths before the shark in starred and glittering waterways, beauty-high, the moon-swathed trees divided, pair on pair, while flapping nightbirds cried across the air ....

This Side of Paradise 2003

Just along side from the club is Phoebe's, an all-night diner, virtually empty but for a few nightbirds.

Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

The shell collector spent the night standing in a window, listening to Lamu: donkeys clopping up the street, nightbirds squelching from somewhere in the acacia to his right, hammer strokes on metal, far off and the surf, washing into the pylons of the docks.

The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

The sun dipped over the rim of the earth and the fields went dark and nightbirds began calling to one another in the woods across the bayou.

Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

The shell collector spent the night standing in a window, listening to Lamu: donkeys clopping up the street, nightbirds squelching from somewhere in the acacia to his right, hammer strokes on metal, far off and the surf, washing into the pylons of the docks.

The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

The shell collector spent the night standing in a window, listening to Lamu: donkeys clopping up the street, nightbirds squelching from somewhere in the acacia to his right, hammer strokes on metal, far off and the surf, washing into the pylons of the docks.

The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002