How To Use Nightjar In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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.
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Nightjars are even more difficult to see in the daytime.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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The eight endangered species of birds are common scoter, hen harrier, grey partridge, corncrake, red-necked phalarope, nightjar, roseate tern and corn bunting.
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Nightjars are now very rare with the latest estimates putting the population at around 3,500 across Britain.
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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.
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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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The day ends with a night game drive to look for nocturnal birds such as owls and nightjars.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do not be deterred from looking for nightjars in this sort of terrain just because they have not been recorded there before.
Times, Sunday Times
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Threatened species include lesser nothura Nothura minor (VU), dwarf tinamou Taoniscus nanus (VU), Brazilian merganser Mergus octosetacues (CR), yellow-faced amazon Amazona zanthops (VU), white-winged nightjar Caprimulgus candicans (EN), rufous-sided pygmy-tyrant Euscarthmus rufomarginatus (VU), cineous warbling finch Poospiza cinerea (VU), marsh seedeater Sporophila palustris (EN), and black-masked finch Coryphaspiza melanotis (VU).
Cerrado Protected Areas, Brazil
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At the end of my last published piece of fiction, written under my own name (‘A Hurricane in a Nightjar’, Savoy Dreams 1984), I wrote directly from the postatomic deserts to the reader: ‘For the time being, thank you’.
Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1)
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Nightjars have large heads and eyes and exceedingly wide mouths, used as scoops for catching insects in midair.
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A trogon was the next, a thickly-feathered soft-looking bird, yoke-toed like a cuckoo, and bearing great resemblance in shape to the nightjar of the English woods, but wonderfully different in plumage; for, whereas the latter is of a soft blending of greys and browns, like the wings of some woodland moths, this trogon's back was of a cinnamon brown, and its breast of a light rosy-scarlet blending off into white crossed with fine dark-pencilled stripes.
The Rajah of Dah
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The nocturnal owls, nightjars, and allies often are poorly known, and very few species have been studied in detail.
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Different gruiforms were found to belong to both groups; mesites, kagus and sunbitterns were metavians close to owlet nightjars, grebes and sandgrouse; seriemas and bustards were coronavians without close relatives; while the gruiform core was part of a coronavian clade that included divers, cuckoos, turacos, tubenosed seabirds, storks, herons, penguins and pelicans.
Archive 2006-11-01
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But the beetles, realizing in a dim, earth-encumbered, lumbering style that it is fatal to emerge either in broad daylight, when many enemies are about, or when night has fallen and the wailing stone curlew and the sedate mopoke and the noisy “chop chop” (nightjar) are prowling, choose the few minutes of dusk for their exit from the moist soil.
Last Leaves from Dunk Island
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A review (and a confession) « In The Gloaming Podcasts
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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They belong to a group of birds called goatsuckers or also known as nightjars for their nighttime singing.
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This set includes the owls and nightjars, which may have a close relationship to the swifts and hummingbirds.
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At dusk on the heaths the strange churring cry of the nightjar may be heard.
Times, Sunday Times
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A large nightjar of the southeastern United States, the Chuck-will's-widow is well known for its continuous singing of its name at dusk.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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There was always a halfpenny underneath the geranium pot in the window-sill for the child whose eye caught sight of the first swallow, redstart or sandpiper; or whose ear first recognised the clarion call of the cuckoo, or the evening "bleat" of the nightjar on the bracken-mantled fells at the end of May.
More Tales of the Ridings
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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We even visited the walkway at night with the good fortune of looking down on one of the rarest birds of our trip, a brown nightjar, a not too distant relative of our whippoorwill, but a very rare and little-known bird.
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There is a glorious passage by Henry Thoreau of his encounter with a nightjar relative called a nighthawk.
Country diary: Holt, Norfolk
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The nocturnal owls, nightjars, and allies often are poorly known, and very few species have been studied in detail.
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Nightjars are coming out at dusk in woodland glades.
Times, Sunday Times
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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The nighthawk belongs to the Family Caprimulgidae, a group of nocturnal and crepuscular birds also known as the nightjars.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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I heard a nightjar, and our nightingale gave us a virtuoso performance but still, no cuckoo.
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The eight endangered species of birds are common scoter, hen harrier, grey partridge, corncrake, red-necked phalarope, nightjar, roseate tern and corn bunting.
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My encounters with that mysterious bird, the nightjar, have been few and are perhaps the more memorable for that.
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The unsleeping African night is filled with sounds - the song of running water; the calls of nightjars; the strident music of the frogs.
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The Thames Basin Heaths proposed SPA, taken as a whole, supports an estimated 8%, 10% and 28% respectively of the GB breeding populations of (nightjar, woodlark and Dartford warbler).
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A large nightjar of the southeastern United States, the Chuck-will's-widow is well known for its continuous singing of its name at dusk.
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Other birds to benefit nationally include song thrushes, red kites, skylarks and nightjars.
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Nightjars feed on flying insects at dusk in open country near trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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The goatsucker is in the nightjar family, the members of which sometimes are called nighthawks (although they're closely related to owls, not hawks).
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A fiery-necked nightjar swooped low over the ground and caught a white moth in its beak before ascending into an acacia tree.
Let The Dead Lie
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There were birds everywhere, of all types - hoopoes, wagtails, tits, finches, and sparrows and swallows nesting in the beams of the house; there were cuckoos singing by day and nightjars by night.
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The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, meanwhile, says the Thames Basin is home to 264 male nightjars (about 8% of the bird's total numbers in the UK), 149 pairs of woodlark and 445 pairs of Dartford warblers.
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We even visited the walkway at night with the good fortune of looking down on one of the rarest birds of our trip, a brown nightjar, a not too distant relative of our whippoorwill, but a very rare and little-known bird.
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Mr Krause said an increase in heathland generally would increase the county's population of adders, rare butterflies, such as the Green Hairstreak and Purple Hairstreak, as well as nightjars and woodlarks.
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Hummingbirds have also been grouped with nightjars, mousebirds and perching birds (Passeriformes).
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There is a glorious passage by Henry Thoreau of his encounter with a nightjar relative called a nighthawk.
Country diary: Holt, Norfolk
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The classification we use recognizes three distinct orders for owls, falcons, and nightjars.
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A wing was all that was known of an Ethiopian nightjar, Caprimulgus solala, but adventurous birdwatchers managed to spot it, though they weren't able to capture it.
Archive 2009-07-01
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This nationally rare and endangered habitat is home to more than 5,000 types of plant and animals that are rarely found elsewhere, including the nightjar and bog-loving plants such as cottongrass and sundew.