Scientists discovered that scissor-tailed nightjars create strange courtship sounds by snapping the bones in their wings ...

The Itombwe nightjar is a bird described from a single specimen in the Congo Basin nearly 70 years ago and not seen by science for at least the past decade. It’s in the top 10 of the global Search for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One bird known as the great eared nightjar looks quite similar to fictional dragons. These cute birds have ear tuffs that resemble ...

With its large, forward-facing eyes and head tufts that look like ears, the great eared nightjar resembles a dragon more than a bird. Often nicknamed the "baby dragon," this otherworldly-looking ...

BANGKOK: Mongkol Chaipakdee, chief of Kaeng Krachan National Park, said that during the recent Songkran holiday, a ‘Great Eared Nightjar’, a rare wild bird that is notoriously difficult to spot in ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ results from 2025 moonlit surveys of owls and nightjars show that some of the bird populations are declining. DNR’s Monitoring of Owls and Nightjars, or MOON, ...

While many lizard species remind us of our favorite fictional dragons, with their scales and long tails, we generally don’t think of birds as resembling dragons. However, the great eared nightjar ...