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Goatsucker

noun

Mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects. Synonyms: caprimulgid, nightjar.

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European goatsucker

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... summer months there was always something to be seen in the lane—a squirrel, a stoat; always a song-bird to listen to, a flower or fern to gather. By night the goatsucker visited it, and the bat, and the white owl gliding down the slope. In winter when the clouds hung low the darkness in the hollow between the high banks, where the light was shut out by the fir trees, was ...

— The Amateur Poacher • Richard Jefferies

... another African bird in its habit of picking off ticks from the backs of oxen, the same duty being performed by the South American goatsucker. ...

— The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston

Words linked to "Goatsucker" : Caprimulgus carolinensis, caprimulgid, European nightjar, Caprimulgus vociferus, chuck-will's-widow, caprimulgiform bird, European goatsucker, Phalaenoptilus nuttallii, family Caprimulgidae, whippoorwill, nighthawk, nightjar, mosquito hawk, poorwill, Caprimulgus europaeus, bullbat, Caprimulgidae