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Nightjar   Listen
noun
Nightjar  n.  A goatsucker, esp. the European species.






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"Nightjar" Quotes from Famous Books



... greater and lesser spotted woodpecker, the carrion crow, the raven, the buzzard, the hen-harrier, and the peregrine falcon. Among the regular visitors are included the white wagtail, the pied flycatcher, the nightjar, the black redstart, the lesser redpole, the snow bunting, the redwing, the reed, marsh, and grasshopper warblers, the siskin, the dotterel, the sanderling, the wryneck, the hobby, the merlin, the bittern, and the shoveller. As occasional visitors may be reckoned the wax-wing, golden ...
— Somerset • G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade



Words linked to "Nightjar" :   mosquito hawk, Phalaenoptilus nuttallii, Caprimulgidae, European goatsucker, Caprimulgus carolinensis, nighthawk, Caprimulgus europaeus, family Caprimulgidae, caprimulgiform bird



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