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Nightjars, the elusive nocturnal birds once nicknamed “goatsuckers” in English folklore, have been recorded in their highest-ever territory count in the Special Protection Area that includes parts of ...

You are in: Devon > Nature > Nature Features > Nightjars on the rise A nightjar and a chick in their nest. Once one of the UK's most threatened birds, the mysterious nightjar is delighting ...

Colin Travers’s day job is in McGovern’s pub in Gorey, Co Wexford. By night he searches remote areas across the county for a secretive bird assumed extinct in Ireland: the nightjar. Travers spends his ...

Debbie Doolittle took the nightjar to her rescue centre to rest and recover An elusive bird which is now considered to be extremely rare in Northern Ireland made an unexpected visit to a Belfast ...