Ever wondered what a small, fluffy dragon with catlike ears looks like? Meet the great eared nightjar, a rather ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who is that calling in the night? Nope, it’s not an owl. Our minds immediately jump to owls when we hear a bird calling out after dark, but they aren’t the only birds that are out at night. Nightjars ...

An unfit Sykes’s nightjar bird was rescued from Mumbai and released back into the wild after it became fit — news that has surprised many among the birding and wildlife communities in Mumbai. In 2019, ...

The winter migration of birds began on a celebratory note for a group of birders in Mangaluru who spotted and recorded the Sykes’s Nightjar (Caprimulgus mahrattensis) at Jokatte, on the outskirts of ...