Only those who have endured the torment of hot nights in the tropics can appreciate his thankfulness as in the silence broken only by the monotonous cry of the nightjars he drowsed contentedly to sleep.
He describes also how several male nightjars repeatedly plunge through the air with astonishing rapidity, suddenly turning, and thus making a singular noise; "but no sooner has the female made her choice, than the other males are driven away.
How difficult it is to see a partridge, snipe, woodcock, certain plovers, larks, and nightjars when crouched on the ground.
At this same season the males of certain nightjars (Caprimulgus) make a most strange noise with their wings.
There is another consideration which makes me think that nightjars feed much in this way.
It is fed on the water, and, directly, afterwards the old bird dives several times in succession, at the end of which he has a piece of weed in his bill, which he reaches to the chick.
Then, as the male dives again, the first chick becomes detached, and the two are on the water together.
In the forest tracts Franklin's and Horsfield's nightjars make the welkin ring.
The vociferous nightjars likewise have laid upon the bare ground their salmon-pink eggs with strawberry-coloured markings.
The nightjars are as vociferous as they were in March; their breeding season is now at its height.
The nightjars make no nest at all, but lay their eggs in a small hollow in the ground, generally under the shelter of a fern, or a tuft of bramble or heather.
The bird-stuffer in Alderney had some wings of Nightjars nailed up behind his door which had been shot in that Island by himself.
On the 25th we were visited for a couple of hours by hundreds of Alpine Swifts: and the same evening the large Red-necked Nightjars (C.
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