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Definition of Nightjar
1. Noun. Mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects.
Generic synonyms: Caprimulgiform Bird
Group relationships: Caprimulgidae, Family Caprimulgidae
Specialized synonyms: Caprimulgus Europaeus, European Goatsucker, European Nightjar, Caprimulgus Carolinensis, Chuck-will's-widow, Caprimulgus Vociferus, Whippoorwill, Bullbat, Mosquito Hawk, Nighthawk, Phalaenoptilus Nuttallii, Poorwill
Definition of Nightjar
1. n. A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker.
Definition of Nightjar
1. Noun. Any of various medium-sized nocturnal birds of the family ''Caprimulgidae'', that feed predominantly on moths and other large flying insects. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nightjar
1. a nocturnal bird [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nightjar
Literary usage of Nightjar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1916)
"\vs Chapín on the Pennant-Winged nightjar.5— During his sojourn in the great ...
1 The Pennant-winged nightjar and its Migration. By James P. Chapin. Bull. ..."
2. A history of British birds by Francis Orpen Morris (1852)
"nightjar. GOATSUCKER. DOR-HAWK. NIGHT-HAWK. FERN-OWL. WHEEL-BIRD. ... THE nightjar
may be looked ..."
3. The Birds of Wordsworth Poetically, Mythologically, and Comparatively Examined by William H. Wintringham (1892)
"THE nightjar. THE first canto of Wordsworth's poem, "The Waggoner," opens with— "
Tis spent, this burning day of June ! Soft darkness o'er its latest gleams ..."
4. Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer by James Edmund Harting (1877)
"In 1872, for example, Mr. Gatcombe informed me that he had seen a nightjar in
the neighbourhood of Plymouth on the loth of April, at least a month earlier ..."
5. Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society and Field Club (1883)
"We have occasionally noticed the nightjar during this performance, which appears
... The flight of the nightjar is silent, rapid, ..."
6. The Nests and Eggs of British Birds: When and where to Find Them : Being a by Charles Dixon (1894)
"BREEDING HABITS : The nightjar is one of the very latest of our summer ...
It is most probable that the nightjar pairs for life, and yearly resorts to one ..."
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