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	* Nightjar - (Animals): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nightjar, named for the loud, churring call that lasts some 5 minutes and "jars" one in the night.
		DNA evidence suggests that owl and nightjars shared a common ancestor with the turacos.
		Coyotes, skunks, bobcats, tarantulas, scorpions, centipedes, peccaries, kangaroo rats, jack rabbits, owls and nightjars are just a few of the many animals you might be lucky enough to spot...
	www.bestknows.com /animals/nightjar.html (317 words)

	Nightjar - Caprimulgus europaeus: More Information - ARKive
		In the UK the nightjar is at the western extreme of its breeding range, which extends to China and Mongolia in the east, southern Scandinavia in the north and south to North Africa.
		Nightjars hunt for insects on the wing at dusk and dawn, their agility allows them to perform rapid twists and turns in pursuit of their prey.
		The nightjar is a UK Biodiversity Action Plan species, this plan aims to halt the decline, and increase the numbers to 4000 churring males by 2003 (5).
	www.arkive.org /species/ARK/birds/Caprimulgus_europaeus/more_info.html (864 words)

	Indian Nightjar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Indian Nightjar, Caprimulgus asiaticus, is a small nightjar which is a resident breeder in India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia.
		During the day, Indian Nightjar lies silent upon the ground, concealed by its plumage; it is then difficult to detect, blending in with the soil.
		At 24cm length, it is smaller than Jerdon's Nightjar, and differs from that species in its plainer tail, buff rear neck, and boldly marked shoulder feathers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_Nightjar (221 words)

	Egyptian Nightjar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Egyptian Nightjar, Caprimulgus aegyptius, is a medium-small nightjar which occurs in south west Asia and north Africa, and winters in tropical Africa.
		Open desert with a few trees or bushes are the haunts of this crepuscular nightjar.
		During the day this nightjar lies silent upon the ground, concealed by its plumage; it is difficult to detect, blending in with the sandy soil.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egyptian_Nightjar (262 words)

	* Nightjar - (Bird): Definition
		Nightjars are nocturnal birds and can be seen hawking for food at dusk and dawn.
		Also called a "goatsucker" or "nightjar" - the Nighthawk spends the day resting on a perch or nesting on the ground; during the late afternoon it begins to swoop like a slow swallow while catching flying insects with its wide mouth...
		The Common Poorwill is the smallest of the "nightjars" in North America, and is considered the western counterpart of the eastern Whip-poor-will.
	en.mimi.hu /bird/nightjar.html (348 words)

	Nightjar family
		The Nightjars are a family of night-flying aerial insectivores scattered around the world with most species concentrated in the tropics and particularly in open county.
		During the summer, it would not be uncommon for at least some of the livestock to be in breeding condition or have newly born offspring, and females would therefore often have milk dripping from their teats.
		The shepherds and country people, seeing the shadowy nightjars around their animals at dusk and noticing the milk early in the morning, put the two circumstances together and believed that the birds were sucking milk during the night and that, as a result, their animals would eventually be sucked dry and go blind.
	www.montereybay.com /creagrus/nightjars.html (1602 words)

	Nightjar - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The first indication that a nightjar is near is usually the male's churring song, rising and falling with a ventriloquial quality.
		Nightjars need bare ground to nest on and find this on heathland, commons and moors, as well as open woodland.
		RSPB reserves with nightjars are: Arne, Dorset; Aylesbeare, Devon; and Minsmere and North Warren, Suffolk.
	www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/n/nightjar/index.asp (307 words)

	nightjar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nightjars are rarely seen during daylight, but at night when they are 'churring' on the branch of a prominent tree they can be picked out against the night sky. Name Nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus) Lifestyle Habitat Nightjars migrate to Britain from Africa and return there after rearing their chicks.
		Nightjar also like forestry plantations, nesting on 'clear fell' sites - where all the trees have been cut down - and on replanted areas, until the trees are around 15 years old.
		With the help of local enthusiasts, we are able to identify forests where nightjars occur and make sure that plans allow for a sequence of clear felling and replanting, providing suitable habitat and food supply.
	www.forestry.gov.uk /website/oldsite.nsf/LUPrintDocsByKey/nightjar (780 words)

	Nightjar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Eurostopodus Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal birds with long wings, short legs and very short bills that usually nest on the ground.
		Nightjars are sometimes referred to as goatsuckers from the mistaken belief that they suck milk from goats (the Latin for goatsucker is Caprimulgus).
		In their pioneering DNA-DNA hybridisation work, Sibley and Ahlquist found that the genetic difference between the eared nighjars and the typical nightjars was, in fact, greater than that between the typical nightjars and the nighthawks of the New World.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/ni/Nightjar.htm (395 words)

	BBC - Devon Great Outdoors - Rare nightjar returns to Bovey Heathland
		The rare nocturnal nightjar has been spotted at a South Devon heath for the first time in 10 years - sparking hopes of a possible revival of the bird in the area.
		Nightjars need bare ground to nest on - on heathland, commons, moors, and open woodland.
		The nightjar has returned to Bovey Heathfield in South Devon after an absence of 10 years.
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/outdoors/nature/2004/nightjars.shtml (310 words)

	Audubon WatchList - Puerto Rican Nightjar
		The present distribution represents only a small fraction (estimated at 3%) of the nightjar's former range, which is known to have included moist limestone forests along the north coast as far eastward as Bayamon, and may have extended inland to the lower cordillera.
		Disturbances that could significantly threaten nightjars in their remaining forest refuges include tree cutting, road and utility line construction and maintenance, extensive recreational use of the forests, wild fires, and grazing by domestic stock.
		About half of the current nightjar habitat is in protected public forests, but the remainder, including lands adjacent to the public forests, is privately held forestland susceptible to conversion to other uses.
	audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=167 (938 words)

	Slender-tailed Nightjar, Caprimulgus clarus
		Nightjars are difficult to distinguish in the field and, as many of the species overlap, this makes firm identification difficult.
		Zimmerman, Turner and Pearson do, however, include an excellent key to identifying Kenyan Nightjars in the hand, in their "Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania", which can be used if you are lucky enough to get a long, close look.
		The Slender-tailed Nightjar can be seen hawking for insects around lights and is consequently a common sight in many of the lodges.
	www.kenyabirds.org.uk /nightjar.htm (261 words)

	BBC - Suffolk Nature - Nightjar Comes to Roost in Ipswich
		A new nightjar sculpture has been carved out of wood by artist Henry Tebbutt who created the series of 11 sculptures made from bronze and metal, located along the 60 mile route through Suffolk Heathland.
		The nightjar is the logo of the Sandlings Walk, and has been used to waymark the route.
		It is rare to see one but the best time is at dusk on a summer evening, when the nightjar comes out to feed and performs a magical display accompanied by a haunting 'churring' sound.
	www.bbc.co.uk /suffolk/nature/sculpture/nightjar_sculpture.shtml (505 words)

	OBC \| publications \| Heinrich's Nightjar \| 2
		Heinrich's Nightjar is a rather compact, short-tailed, short- and noticeably blunt-winged species, with rapid, fluttering wing beats and an erratic flight only interspersed by short sweeping glides, that forages singly or in pairs and nearly always keeps very low to the ground.
		Clearly the affinities of Heinrich's Nightjar lie with the Australopapuan members ofEurostopodus and definitely not with the truly eared, Oriental species –; which should perhaps be retained in a separate genus Lyncornis 4 – and the absence of Eurostopodus from the Moluccas and Lesser Sunda islands chain remains puzzling in this respect.
		Archbold's Nightjar too remains a noticeably poorly known taxon: the westernmost boundary of its distribution along New Guinea's central cordillera is imperfectly known and in its historic range its vocalisations remain to be adequately described and documented4 (and B. Beehler in litt., 24 January 2002).
	www.orientalbirdclub.org /publications/bullfeats/satanic2.html (1134 words)

	Surveying one of the UK's least seen birds - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A similar census in 1992 revealed 3,400 pairs of nightjar across the UK, a 62% increase in the population from 1982, but even this welcome rise only represents a partial recovery.
		The recent increase is due partly to conifer plantations being felled and becoming suitable for nightjars.
		The nightjar is one of 26 priority bird species included in the Government-approved Biodiversity Action Plan.
	www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/n/nightjar/survey.asp (438 words)

	Boreal Forests of the World Bird Species - European Nightjar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nightjars are nocturnal and crepuscular (active at dawn and dusk).
		The European Nightjar is just under 30 cm in length, with a wingspan of about 60 cm.
		They are more often heard than seen, and the bird'Õs remarkably camouflaged plumage of greys, browns and russets makes it almost invisible amongst the vegetation in which it hides during daylight hours.
	www.borealforest.org /world/birds/european_nightjar.htm (170 words)

	Nightjar, Caprimulgus europaeus
		My encounters with that mysterious bird, the nightjar, have been few and are perhaps the more memorable for that.
		Not until fears were proven as fact was much done to attempt to reverse the situation and now a few of the remaining heaths are carefully managed to aid not just this bird but other heathland species.
		Fortunately, nightjars find conditions to their liking in such places as cleared blocks of forestry plantation.
	www.birdsofbritain.co.uk /bird-guide/nightjar.htm (455 words)

	Articles - European Nightjar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Nightjar flies at dusk, most often at sundown, a long-tailed, shadowy form with easy, silent moth-like flight; its strong and deliberate wingbeats alternate with graceful sweeps and wheels with motionless wings.
		During the day the Nightjar lies silent upon the ground, often on a heap of stones, concealed by its plumage; it is difficult to detect, looking like a bit of lichen-covered twig or a fragment of bark.
		The Nightjar does not hunt with open mouth, as often depicted, but the huge gape opens wide for large crepuscular insects, such as noctuid moths and dor-beetles, which are snapped up with avidity.
	www.lastring.com /articles/European_Nightjar?mySession=11d3891c359f24f62b73d0eee39ac4e0 (856 words)

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		In the literature the Puerto Rico nightjar is referred to scientifically as Antrostomus vociferus (05) (Antrostomus was later changed to Caprimulgus), Caprimulgus vociferus noctitherus (01,07,15) and Caprimulgus noctitherus Wetmore (04,08,10,11,16,17,18,20,23,24, 25).
		The Puerto Rico nightjar is presently thought to occur at carrying capacity in Guanica Forest and probably also in Susua Forest (11); 324 breeding pairs occupy Guanica Forest and adjacent private land while 68 breeding pairs occur in Susua Forest.
		For this reason the Puerto Rico nightjar is one of the easiest of all endangered birds to census (08,11,12).
	fwie.fw.vt.edu /WWW/esis/lists/e104006.htm (3505 words)

	nightjar -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		A number of tropical caprimulgiforms are sedentary, but the widespread cosmopolitan nightjars exhibit all degrees of migration.
		Some populations of the common nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) of North America and the European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus) migrate south to Argentina and South Africa, respectively.
		It is a relative of the nightjar (q.v.), belonging to the family Caprimulgidae.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9055817?tocId=9055817 (369 words)

	Submission No:130 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The bird was measured (total length 215mm) and a few notes taken on the plumage which was described as "a typical Nightjar without white in the tail, and a sub-terminal white flash in the primaries giving a distinct white window in the wing.
		The committee directed considerable research into the identification of Nightjars from South East Asia and Wallacea in an effort to gain positive identification of this bird and eliminate all possible contenders including those resident in Australasia.
		The Grey or Jungle Nightjar C. indicus, is migratory and might be expected to occasionally overshoot its normal wintering range which extends south to Java and once to New Guinea (Coates 1990).
	users.bigpond.net.au /palliser/barc/sub187.html (652 words)

	Blackish nightjar
		Nightjars are unconspicious brown birds with little brown-yellow stripes and blots on their feathers and some white in their wings throat and tail.
		The nightjar above is a flish nightjar (female), the darkest species.
		The flish nightjar sometimes breeds on fl rocks (near Voltzberg f.i.) in the open and there it must cool its egg by puffing all the tme with its mouth wide open.
	webserv.nhl.nl /~ribot/english/capni_ng.htm (390 words)

	NEWSARAMA - FOLLOWING IN MOORE'S FOOTSTEPS: ANTONY JOHNSTON ON NIGHTJAR
		This time, Johnson is joined by Max Fiumara, late of DC’s aborted THUNDER Aganets restart on Nightjar, a four issue fl and white miniseries, picking up from Moore and Bryan Talbot’s story begun 23 years ago.
		Nightjar was created in 1980 by Alan Moore and Bryan Talbot for Warrior magazine, which was already publishing Alan's Marvelman and V For Vendetta strips.
		The Demdyke's bird happens to be the nightjar, but there's also a heron, a swan, a cuckoo...
	www.newsarama.com /forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9080 (2316 words)

	OBC \| publications \| Heinrich's Nightjar
		Great Eared Nightjar Eurostopodus macrotis constitutes the prime confusion species and numerous unsubstantiated claims of Heinrich's Nightjar persist, originating from the fact that few observers seem to realise that the subspecies macropterus endemic to Sulawesi is strikingly different from the huge harrier-like E. m.
		Coates and Bishop(3) briefly summarised the main distinguishing features of Heinrich's Nightjar and the species' identification has been thoroughly elucidated by Cleere and Nurney.(4) In contrast, Bishop and Diamond5 incomprehensibly perpetuate some of the previously reigning misconceptions by talking about a much larger E. m.
		Naturally, some caution is appropriate given that only the holotype is available for analysis and in other members of Eurostopodus the male is known to be the larger sex, in which case the discrepancies may be even further reduced slightly.
	www.orientalbirdclub.org /publications/bullfeats/satanic.html (423 words)

	Nightjar #1 - Shiny Shelf
		If you recall, the pitch for Moore and artist Bryan Talbot's 'Nightjar' serial was reprinted in an issue of Avatar's 'Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths', along with the first, fully scripted episode.
		To avoid direct comparisons, and to allow the new series to stand on its own, issue #1 of this series doesn't include the Moore/Talbot episode, instead recapping the premise in dialogue as Mirrigan Demdyke visits her mother, then some friends, while elsewhere her enemies mass against her.
		In the twenty years since it was conceived, 'Nightjar' has gone from being a contemporary story to a period piece, and Johnston and Fiumara have done an excellent job of recreating the feel of old British fl and white comics.
	www.shinyshelf.co.uk /article/3/4/841 (449 words)

	Nightjar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She recognised the songs of all the birds in her garden, yet she was almost certain, she had never heard a nightjar.
		Perhaps nightjars are shy birds?" She could look that up in her encyclopaedia of birds.
		When they had tea, the professor assured her nightjars are indigenous to the area and mimicked one.
	www.angelfire.com /trek/eastern1tales/nightjar.htm (797 words)

	BTO - Breeding Birds of the Wider Countryside: Nightjar
		BTO - Breeding Birds of the Wider Countryside: Nightjar
		Nightjar suffered a decline in range of more than 50% of 10-km squares between breeding atlases, but the 1992 national survey revealed a welcome increase of 50% in population size since 1981, probably due to the increased availability of young forest habitat as plantations were felled and replanted (Morris et al.
		The apparent increase in nest failure rates is probably an artefact of very small sample sizes in the early years, but some decrease in clutch and brood sizes is now becoming apparent.
	www.bto.org /birdtrends2004/wcrnijar.htm (187 words)

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