An ecological survey has found 109 nightjar territories in the lowland heaths of east Hampshire.

Nightjars, the elusive nocturnal birds once nicknamed “goatsuckers” in English folklore, have been recorded in their ...

Numbers of the nightjar, nicknamed the 'goatsucker', have doubled in the South Downs National Park after five years of intensive habitat restoration ...

Ever wondered what a small, fluffy dragon with catlike ears looks like? Meet the great eared nightjar, a rather mystical-looking bird. This big-eyed creature, whose name is Lyncornis macrotis and is ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ results from 2025 moonlit surveys of owls and nightjars show that some of the populations are declining.

The Itombwe nightjar is a bird described from a single specimen in the Congo Basin nearly 70 years ago and not seen by science for at least the past decade. It’s in the top 10 of the global Search for ...

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