The mysterious nightjar is among the species being tracked as part of the largest survey of heathland birds for more than 20 years. The study, organised by the British Trust for Ornithology, will also ...

An elusive bird which is now considered to be extremely rare in Northern Ireland made an unexpected visit to a Belfast street, where it was found behind a bin. Office staff who spotted it on the ...

The nightjar, a nocturnal bird species, is a master of disguise. Their grey-brown coloring and streaked feathers help them to camouflage with their surroundings, making them difficult to spy. Even so, ...

The Itombwe nightjar is a bird described from a single specimen in the Congo Basin nearly 70 years ago and not seen by science for at least the past decade. It’s in the top 10 of the global Search for ...

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The nightjar has one of the strangest voices in British wildlife, and people have been trying to explain it for thousands of years. Its soft, haunting call carries across heathland at dusk, and the ...