nightjar

• Common Pauraque, the only time on the trip that we would hear a nightjar species. —  10,000 Birds
• Take a look at the two photos below: they were taken at the same spot, one at 100mm to give an idea of how beautifully camouflaged this superb nightjar is, the second at 400mm and cropped a little to give you (and me) the kind of look a bird this good deserves … —  10,000 Birds
• A Syrian nightjar, or some such bird, was known to be breeding in the olive gardens of a rich Armenian, who for some reason or other wouldn't allow Lanner to go in and take the eggs, though he offered cash down for the permission. —  Beasts and Super-Beasts
• In open country the jungle owlet and the dusky-horned owl call at intervals, and the Indian nightjar (_Caprimulgus asiaticus_) imitates the sound of a stone skimming over ice. —  A Bird Calendar for Northern India
• In addition to this note Horsfield's nightjar emits a low soft chur_, chur_, chur The third nightjar, which also is confined chiefly to forest tracts, is known as Franklin's nightjar (_C. —  A Bird Calendar for Northern India

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