I had never seen a nightjar, hardly knew what one was.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

In August 1786 Gilbert White had a young nightjar—Ibid., pp.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

Who noticed whether or not a nightjar flew around in the daytime?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Torc]

April 24th, 2008 at 5:52 pm nightjar guess not, sorry about that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » $7,000 for Obama] Reference

April 24th, 2008 at 5: 52 pm nightjar guess not, sorry about that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » $7,000 for Obama] Reference

At the same moment came the call of a nightjar, soft and insistent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Regiment]

An 'the moon she climbed the' azels, while a nightjar seemed to spin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of To-Day: an Anthology] Reference

We stop and I scoop up the mess of feathers of a rufous-cheeked nightjar.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

Gilbert White was given a clutch of two nightjar eggs—White, Journals, p.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

Six Knights and four draconians heard the single piercing call of a nightjar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lioness]

Quickly it vanished, leaving behind only the monotonous song of the nightjar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nightside The Long Sun]

I prefer another description—one that seems no less evocative of a nightjar.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

In the sky above, a nightjar shrilled its furious kutuk-kutukkutuk and flew away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Torc]

Outside the mausoleum there was a bony rattle of fall leaves and the cry of a nightjar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wizard and Glass]

Gilbert White feels a nightjar singing—Gilbert White, letter XXII, 1769, in White, p.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

The nightjar section is the hardest of all—the hardest to describe and the hardest to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

Next to it is the still-stiffening wing of the rufous-cheeked nightjar I brought back from Zambia.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

On his way back to the dormitory, Arkady heard the muffled flight of a nightjar scooping up moths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wolves Eat Dogs]

But the same night in Norfolk, we caught a Breckland nightjar in a mist net as it hunted for moths.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

In August 1786 Gilbert White had a young nightjar for several days in a cage, & fed it with bread, & milk.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

The nightjar is monotonous but I like it nonetheless: tonk-tonk-tonk - sometimes non-stop for minutes at a time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the garden] Reference

He shook his head, and they all settled to silence, so still that the high shrill cry of a nightjar startled Jeratt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lioness]

My father and I had gone to the same place where a few years before on a bird club outing we had been shown a nightjar.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

At the moment our second nightjar species - the Savannah nightjar is also calling, usually at dusk in flight: Chwwit!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the garden] Reference

I remembered holding the dying rufous-cheeked nightjar on the sand road in Zambia and seeing its eyes shut against the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

It shares this quality with only two other birds, I think: the wryneck, an aberrant woodpecker, and another night bird, the nightjar.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

Kelaart's nightjar; swarms on the marshy plains of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon] Reference

I lie awake on my pillow with the cry of the nightjar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Who Did] Reference

The common species of the Nilgiris is the jungle nightjar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference

That's the churning of the nightjar going up to Ballure glen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference

"Like going from the nightingale to the nightjar," said Arabella.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference

"And there," I said, "are the nightingale and the nightjar for orchestra.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance] Reference

"Now we shall know whether it really is the nightjar, or Simpson gargling.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holiday Round] Reference

Horsfield's nightjar is not often heard, but the bird continues to utter its soft churring note.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference

Days end with golden sunsets, the call of a Heuglin Robin or a nightjar and then the evening star, clear and bright in the twilight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference