Vanavond 2 Nachtzwaluwen in 1 boom gezien (Caprimulgus europaeus) #nightjar #vogelskijken #volgdenatuur #BirdsSeenIn2023 @Britnatureguide @vogelnieuws #natuuronline

I am leading a walk on Thursday on a reserve I’ve never been to before so thought I ought to spend an evening getting a feel for the place. I don’t recall ever having seen a #Nightjar sit out like this before for so long - it spent a good five minutes at the top of a bush. Footage taken on the ‘phone.

#Devon #willdlife #nature #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #goatsucker

Bird of he Day - Common Nighthawk, Kansas 2020
Not-so-common these days

#birds #BirdsOfMastodon #wildlife #nature #nightjar #photography #FlyoverCountry

We heard this outside our house at 22:30 last night. I think that it is a #nightjar call, but it just repeated this short phrase and never started to 'churr'.
So
1 was it a nightjar?
2 why just this part of the song?
#Birdsong
#BritishBirds

Night hawks asleep on a driftwood roost in Tambopata River, Peruvian Amazon. Tambopata National Park core has only one lodge, Tambopata Research Center. I am so lucky to have stayed there twice, in a ‘room’ open to the jungle. I wish I was there. Perhaps I can write myself back?
#nighthawks #Tambopata #PeruvianAmazon #ecopoetry #amazonia #SaveOurForests #Peru #nightjar

Always sad these days to observe an interesting species and not have a chance to photograph it 🙁. I was leaving the CSIRO Black Mountain site here in #Canberra at dusk this evening, and a bird flew close overhead that I would instantly have called as a #nightjar in Europe.

Dark with long, parallel-sided wings and tail and the rubbery flight of a hawking nightjar or nighthawk.

It must have been my first white-throated nightjar, but I'm left with this in #iNaturalist:

https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/155585741

RT @RevNJ
1/ What happened to the dark at night? Imagine being a nocturnal visual predator. Would you rather hunt in the dark or in the light? We investigate how light at night influences flight activity of European #Nightjar in #Belgium, #Mongolia and #Africa. #BOU2023 #Sesh6

This was quite a read for the bus to work. Wow. Nightjar Press always pick fantastic shorts to publish.

#jimgibson #nightjarpress #nightjar #reading #books

#tiger #tuftedtit #nightjar #mushroom #vultures #aglitteringvenery #exucalamity #criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #dungeonsanddragons

en anglais c'est #nightjar donc désolée j'imagine un pot de confiture violet avec des petites ailes et qui engloutit le vent comme Kirby

#DoodlewashDecember2022 prompt: Nightjar
Did you know the male nightjar has a call with up to 1900 notes a minute? They also make a loud wing-clapping sound when patrolling territory.
* Daniel Smith Gouache
* Hahnemühle Beige-toned Watercolor Book
#art #mastoart #paintings #postcard #nightjar #bird

A pair of collared nightjars, camouflaged beautifully in some lovely leafy undergrowth 🥰 Reminiscing about our trip to Madagascar a few years ago.

Weird to think the scientific name means "goat-milk drinkers" because people thought they drank milk from goats. Probably one of my picks for weirdly named animal 😀

#madagascar #birding #birds #birdsofmastodon #nightjar