Very like the action of the nightjar when disturbed with the young chicks.
Its action whilst spinning over the ground was very like that of the nightjar when put up from her young ones.
This subspecies of the Jungle Nightjar is restricted to the Palau Islands and particularly to those islands possessing damp, shady forests and mangrove swamps.
The Manila nightjar is the most common species of its genus in the Islands and has a considerable vertical range, being found in the pine woods of Benguet Province as well as in the lowlands and near the sea.
As a set-off to these early visits of the cuckoo, a nightjar has hunted round the islet for moths, both at dusk and during the night, when its note may often be heard.
Lastly in an Australian nightjar "the female always exceeds the male in size and in the brilliance of her tints; the males, on the other hand, have two white spots on the primaries more conspicuous than in the female.
An unspecified nocturnal bird, perhaps the nightjar or the night-heron.
In the summer of 1859 a Nightjarfrequented the immediate neighbourhood of my own house, and I had many opportunities of listening to its note.
In the dusk of the evening the Nightjar may commonly be seen hawking for moths and beetles after the manner of the Swallow-tribe, only that the flight is less rapid and more tortuous.
The Nightjar is a migratory bird and the last to arrive in this country, appearing not before the middle of May.
One point in the economy of the Nightjar is still disputed (1908) the use which it makes of its serrated middle claw.
We know that their bills are wide in order to seize large insects on the wing, and that if goats yield no milk in the morning it is not the nightjar who is to blame.
The other nightjaris that of Horsfield (Caprimulgus macrurus).
Horsfield's nightjar is abundant in the sal forests of the Pilibhit district.
Callow as he was, he was not just half a man or half a boy the way the Nightjar poem concerned itself with a bird-boy.
Her fingertips caressed the illustration of the Nightjar on the cover page.
In open country the jungle owlet and the dusky-horned owl call at intervals, and the Indian nightjar (Caprimulgus asiaticus) imitates the sound of a stone skimming over ice.
The third nightjar, which also is confined chiefly to forest tracts, is known as Franklin's nightjar (C.
In addition to this note Horsfield's nightjaremits a low soft chur, chur, chur.
The domestic habits of the nightjar are very pretty and interesting.
From the number of sounds which the nightjar has at command, I deduce that it is a bird of considerable range and variety of feeling, which would be likely to make it an intelligent bird also; and this, in my experience, it is.
At the distance of two paces I looked full at a nightjar sitting amongst flakes of fir-bark, strewed about the sand, and, for some time, it appeared to me that it was one of these.
The nightjar utters many notes, besides that very extraordinary one by which it is so well known, and which has procured for it many of its names.
It is, perhaps, just possible that we already see in the nightjar some steps towards a special resemblance.
When, therefore, we find the parent nightjar regurgitating food into the chick’s mouth, we may suspect that it also swallows large quantities of insects of an equally small, or smaller size.
I must add that whilst this nightjar was thus struggling to extricate its eggs, it uttered from time to time a low querulous note.
I have spoken of the nightjar clapping its wings a dozen or score of times in succession.
The nightjar is a remarkably close sitter, and both this special habit and its general drowsiness upon the nest may have been fostered, at the same time, by natural selection.
Needless to say, there is no truth whatever in the accusation, for the nightjarwould find no more pleasure in drinking milk than we should in eating moths.
The difference in this respect between the two subjects of these remarks is that the nightjar is invariably silent all through the day, whereas the nightingale sings joyously at all hours.
As has been said, both these birds are summer migrants, the nightingale arriving on our shores about the middle of April, the nightjar perhaps a fortnight later.
And there," I said, "are the nightingale and the nightjar for orchestra.
I think no thought that does not fly to her, I have no joys I do not share with her, I tell her when the spring is here, and we sit beneath the moon and listen to the nightjar together.
Professor Ansted includes the Nightjarin his list, but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey and Sark.
The Nightjaris a regular autumnal visitant, a few perhaps arriving in the spring and remaining to breed, but by far the greater number only making their appearance on their southward migration in the autumn.
Not far off was a camp of quarrelsome Flying Foxes, and the melancholy Nightjar in the distance was fulfilling its mission of making all the bush creatures miserable with its incessant, mournful "mo-poke!
I wish the Nightjar wouldn't make that noise when one wants to sleep," said the Kangaroo.
Still, many commentators think that the Night-hawk or Nightjar is the bird which is signified by the word tachmas; and, as we have already treated of the owls, we will accept the rendering of the Authorized Version.
The common species of the Nilgiris is the jungle nightjar (Caprimulgus indicus).
Overhead A nightjar rustles by, wing touching wing, And passes, uttering His hoarse and whirring note.
The Nightjar was thought by the ignorant countryman to convey this disorder to the calves whilst flitting about them.
The Nightjar leaves the northern shires in September for its winter quarters in Africa, although it is by no means uncommonly observed quite a month later in the extreme south and south-west of England.
It is said, by the way, that the Nightjarcaptures cockchafers with its feet, and that its serrated middle claw is for this purpose.
The Common Sandpiper, which we know came back in April, is now nesting by the side of upland waters; the Nightjar and the Turtle Dove are breeding.
Unfortunately the Nightjar is only abroad of its own choice during hours when darkness renders observation difficult; we must perforce crowd most of our scrutiny into the twilight hour, and just before the rising of the sun.
The Nightjar breeds in May or June, a little later in the north than in the south.
Shot the first Russet-necked Nightjar and observed Melodious Willow-Warblers (Hypolais polyglotta).
Sometimes a score of these curious birds would cast themselves down on the bare ground all around one, some with expanded wings, and all lying head to wind, much as a nightjar squats on the sand.
Another characteristic case of protective imitation is furnished by the nightjar or goatsucker.
Unless disturbed, the nightjar rarely comes abroad during the day, but obtains its food at twilight and dusk.
A gigantic nightjar swirled on me, plucking at my hair.
And out of the distance the nightjar set again to its churring.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nightjar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
