goatsuckers

The goatsuckers are a group of birds whose members include the poorwill whip or not, the nighthawk, and yes, the pauraque.

languagehat.com: ORNITHONOMY. 2005

But my favorite must be "Glorious Goatsuckers", especially his Christmas card with goats, goatsuckers, and milk snakes.

FYI: Montana and More.. 2006

But my favorite must be "Glorious Goatsuckers", especially his Christmas card with goats, goatsuckers, and milk snakes.

Archive 2006-08-01 2006

For the most part, they did not incorporate breeding populations of waterbirds (e.g., watefowl, colonial-nesting waterbirds, marsh-nesting birds) and almost certainly underestimated breeding populations of crepuscular and nocturnal birds (e.g., goatsuckers and owls).

Archive 2002-07-01 John L. Trapp 2002

For the most part, they did not incorporate breeding populations of waterbirds (e.g., watefowl, colonial-nesting waterbirds, marsh-nesting birds) and almost certainly underestimated breeding populations of crepuscular and nocturnal birds (e.g., goatsuckers and owls).

How Many Birds Are There? John L. Trapp 2002

Even the goatsuckers, queer birds that looked like giant whip-poor-wills, had ceased their wails and in the jungle reigned the darkest hours of night.

The Black Phantom

Nightjars, or goatsuckers, to give them their ancient and time-honoured name, are birds that lie up during the day in shady woods and issue forth at dusk on silent wing in order to hawk insects.

Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

The call of the most widely-distributed of the Indian goatsuckers -- _Caprimulgus asiaticus_, the common Indian nightjar -- is like unto the sound made by

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

And to believe even this we should first have to assume that bats and goatsuckers are differently constituted from all other creatures; for in other animals -- insects, birds, and mammalians -- the appearance of fire by night seems to confuse and frighten, but it certainly cannot be said to

The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

Raptorial insects, as I have said, feed freely on fireflies, so that the supposed warning is not for them, and it would be hard to believe that the magnificent display made by luminous insects is useful only in preventing accidental injuries to them from a few crepuscular bats and goatsuckers.

The Naturalist in La Plata 1881