These chunky predators of Australia and South and Southeast Asia are a force to be reckoned with. They catch their nocturnal ...

There is a significant and concerning decline in the genetic diversity of British nightjar populations over the past two centuries, a study from the University of York has found. Researchers are now ...

Humans use calendars, while animals track the seasons in myriad ways — but the red-necked nightjar answers only to the moon.

And Then Come the Nightjars is a quirky mockumentary that’ll have you hooting with laughter. This British gem follows the misadventures of a dysfunctional family tasked with documenting the elusive ...

Some birds sing to attract a mate. Others dance or display colorful feathers. But in the moonlit forests and shrublands of northern Argentina, one bird courts romance by snapping its wrists together, ...

Visible at dusk, the species is more readily seen than its more elusive nocturnal cousins, but all of these oddballs are ...

The nightjar has "a supernatural reputation" thanks to a myth that it steals milk from goats The number of nightjars recorded in a national park is thought to have doubled in the past five years ...

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 ...

The European nightjar, which migrates from northern Europe to sub-Saharan Africa, seems to synchronise its flying with phases of the moon. It is the first time an animal’s migration patterns have been ...