(n.) A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the sky turned lilac, I saw hundreds flutter past – red and blue macaws in pairs, companies of green parrots, flotillas of ibis gliding in elegant V-formation, as well as toucans, nightjars, lapwings and pauraques.
(2) This tropical relative of the nightjars is another bird so bizarre you couldn’t make it up: a creature of the night with huge eyes, bristles around its bill to help it detect flying insects in the darkness, and a fine line in camouflage; only when Doug uses his laser pointer to show me where it is, can I even manage to see it.
(3) Look and listen out for Pipistrelle bats leaving their roosts to hunt for small insects; nightjars chasing moths; the occasional cow, employed to keep down the scrub.
(4) Four species of Leucocytozoon, L. caprimulgi of the Caprimulgidae (nightjars), L. marchouxi of the Columbidae (pigeons and doves), L. grusi of the Gruidae (cranes) and L. tawaki of the Spheniscidae (penguins) are re-described.