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Lyre-tailed Nightjar

Peter Dexter

Well-known member
This would be a female or immature as it lacks the long streaming tail of the male. (You take what you can get). If you look closely you can see she has "whiskers". These are to help her trap moths in flight.

These are difficult to photograph because they only begin activity at dusk and terminate at dawn so you will only have silhouetted views if you see them at all. During daylight they remain perched the entire time.

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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Must be so hard to detect when the background is a tree trunk or btmranch!

Those whiskers are amazing Engineering!

I wouldn’t have noticed unless you pointed that out.

I would have just imagined she was incubating an egg or two!

Asher
 
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