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Definition of Nightjars
1. nightjar [n] - See also: nightjar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nightjars
Literary usage of Nightjars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Naturalist in the Guianas by Eugene André (1904)
"... X FAUNA AND FLORA OP LA PRISION—THE CLEARING Hornets — Butterflies — nightjars —
The wood-nightjar — Hawks — The ..."
2. Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age To-day in Dutch New Guinea by Alexander Frederick Richmond Wollaston, William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, Alfred Cort Haddon, Sidney Herbert Ray (1912)
"No doubt, like its Australian ally, it roosts in holes in trees during the daytime
and captures its prey on the wing at night, like the true nightjars, ..."
3. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1895)
"The following terms are generic and apply to all nightjars ... The habits of all
nightjars are similar. They rest usually on the ground amongst vegetation ..."
4. Report of Meeting by ANZAAS, ANZAAS. (1905)
"Following on the Swifts, we notice their crepuscular and nocturnal allies, the
nightjars and " Frog-mouths." In connection with the first family, ..."
5. Ornithological & Other Oddities by Frank Finn (1907)
"In the nightjars it is most perfect, and it has been suggested that in their case
it is a moustache-comb ; but that explanation breaks down, because some of ..."
6. Report of the Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the by ANZAAS. (1905)
"Following on the Swifts, we notice their crepuscular and nocturnal allies, the
nightjars and " Frog-mouths." In connection with the first family, ..."