Ever wondered what a small, fluffy dragon with catlike ears looks like? Meet the great eared nightjar, a rather ...

With its large, forward-facing eyes and head tufts that look like ears, the great eared nightjar resembles a dragon more than a bird. Often nicknamed the "baby dragon," this otherworldly-looking ...

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 ...

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Colin Travers’s day job is in McGovern’s pub in Gorey, Co Wexford. By night he searches remote areas across the county for a secretive bird assumed extinct in Ireland: the nightjar. Travers spends his ...

Who is that calling in the night? Nope, it’s not an owl. Our minds immediately jump to owls when we hear a bird calling out after dark, but they aren’t the only birds that are out at night. Nightjars ...

They look a bit spooky with their oddly shaped eyes. The Romans even suspected them to suck milk from goats hence their latin name “caprimulgus” which means “goatsucker”. Read on to learn more about ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Scientists tested the capacity of small drones equipped with thermal cameras to survey European nightjar nests in areas where construction or ...