European Nightjar numbers on RSPB nature reserves have reached a record high of 211 in 2024, thanks to long-term conservation ...

Across RSPB nature reserves, habitat management methods have restored areas of invaluable heathland. At RSPB Minsmere in Suffolk, Nightjar numbers have increased to 24 churring males – their highest ...

This year, the BTO is asking birders to log European Nightjar sightings via its Heathland Birds Survey, run in partnership with the RSPB and funded by Natural England. This will allow the charity to ...

Given Mr. Trump’s repeated claim that the European Union has long been “ripping off” the United States, it’s worth remembering that in 2008, both had the same size economies, Mr. Blyth added.

My research team monitored European nightjars (Caprimulgus europaeus) in flight (both foraging and migrating) for a year using accelerometers, a type of motion sensor.

2. Nightjars Nightjars are birds that hunt for flying insects at dusk and dawn. My research team monitored European nightjars (Caprimulgus europaeus) in flight (both foraging and migrating) for a year ...

“There are early signs that a number of rare species, such as European nightjar and silver-studded blue butterflies, are flourishing,” Jeff Travis, media and public relations officer at the national ...

But , thanks to the work to provide habitats by Forestry England and others, nightjar numbers have steadily increased since the 1980s ,and it has now been moved to the less critical Amber List.

Seeing is hearing Though they’re called European nightjars, these birds actually spend most of the year in Africa, primarily in the grasslands of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Europeans and early Euro-Americans believed this, too, possibly coopting Indigenous beliefs and combining them with those surrounding the European Nightjar. The whip-poor-wills’ tune was also part of ...

The word was first used in 1630 to describe the discordant sound of a European nightjar. Apparently some people regarded a bird singing at night as jarring to the senses.