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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 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 ...

"You're a colossal and perpetual pain in the ass!" "No, you are a pain in the ass...!" Finite Films in the UK has revealed an official trailer for an indie drama titled And Then Come the Nightjars, ...

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 ...