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- noun Plural form of
nightjar .
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Examples
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The best story I know showing how difficult it is to find nightjars on their nests is one told by the ornithologist John Walpole-Bond.
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The best story I know showing how difficult it is to find nightjars on their nests is one told by the ornithologist John Walpole-Bond.
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Often confused with owls because of their appearance and nocturnal hunting habits, tawny frogmouths are actually related to nightjars.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Often confused with owls because of their appearance and nocturnal hunting habits, tawny frogmouths are actually related to nightjars.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Often confused with owls because of their appearance and nocturnal hunting habits, tawny frogmouths are actually related to nightjars.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Often confused with owls because of their appearance and nocturnal hunting habits, tawny frogmouths are actually related to nightjars.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Though the area is a stronghold for nightjars, we managed just a single nest.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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This time we went home before the nightjars got going.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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I snuffed the candles and lay listening to crickets, nightjars and a hillbilly band of banjo frogs in the soupy dam where the artist sometimes wallowed in the afternoon.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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I turn it over, and spit it out, rolling on my back, floodlights on the nightjars.
Wait 2009
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