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nightjar

[ UK /nˈa‍ɪtd‍ʒɑː/ ]
NOUN
  1. mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects

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  • Somehow all of that nightjar inheritance was there before us in her all-seeing, stone-like quiescence. Country diary: Holt, Norfolk
  • Our nightjar was a few metres away, but she betrayed no anxiety except to keep her pale lids fractionally open so that we could see a third of her liquid dark eyes. Country diary: Holt, Norfolk
  • Along with the loss of heather and cottongrass, birds such as the nightjar, woodlark and stone curlew and animals including the adder, grass snake, and viviparous lizard have been put at risk.
  • Nightjars are even more difficult to see in the daytime. Times, Sunday Times
  • This volume completes the non-passerines, dealing with all species occurring on the continent - residents and visitors alike - in the following families: parrots, turacos, cuckoos, owls, nightjars, swifts, colies, kingfishers and their allies, and woodpeckers and their allies.
  • The eight endangered species of birds are common scoter, hen harrier, grey partridge, corncrake, red-necked phalarope, nightjar, roseate tern and corn bunting.
  • Nightjars are now very rare with the latest estimates putting the population at around 3,500 across Britain.
  • Along with the loss of heather and cottongrass, birds such as the nightjar, woodlark and stone curlew and animals including the adder, grass snake, and viviparous lizard have been put at risk.
  • This is how the great handbook of European birds, The Birds of the Western Palearctic, attempts to capture a nightjar in words—one bird sits still among all these feathers: A Year on the Wing
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