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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One bird known as the great eared nightjar looks quite similar to fictional dragons. These cute birds have ear tuffs that resemble ...

Nightjars, the elusive nocturnal birds once nicknamed “goatsuckers” in English folklore, have been recorded in their highest-ever territory count in the Special Protection Area that includes parts of ...

BANGKOK: Mongkol Chaipakdee, chief of Kaeng Krachan National Park, said that during the recent Songkran holiday, a ‘Great Eared Nightjar’, a rare wild bird that is notoriously difficult to spot in ...

Moonlight determines when the red-necked nightjar feeds, migrates and raises its young. A groundbreaking long-term study from Lund University shows how the migratory bird's entire annual cycle follows ...

While many lizard species remind us of our favorite fictional dragons, with their scales and long tails, we generally don’t think of birds as resembling dragons. However, the great eared nightjar ...