European nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus, adult roosting during the day on a log, Dorset, July. Further success has been seen across the RSPB Arne reserves in Dorset (Arne, Stoborough Heath, Grange ...

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 ...

Once every spring, a few days after the full moon, corals of the great barrier reef release eggs and sperm simultaneously – a phenomenon so spectacular it can be seen from space. Not only does the ...

“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 ...

A pair of European Nightjars has bred in Aberdeenshire, with the chicks the first to be hatched in the county for nearly 100 years. Posting on X on 20 June, Alan Knox stated that the youngsters were ...

European nightjar. The nightjar frequently spends the day on the ground among dead bracken and is beautifully camouflaged with its black, brown and cream feathers breaking its outline.

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. Then, ...

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.

A planned €250 million extension of a hospital in Germany is being held up by a single European nightjar even though no one has seen the bird for a year, the mayor has claimed. Years of complex legal ...

Triin Edovald, a specialist from the Environmental Agency's wildlife department, discussed on the "Vikerhommik" radio program a rare occurrence involving a nightjar that was reportedly eaten in Congo.