The secret sound of nightjars (VIDEO)

University of California - Riverside

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Little has been known, until now, about the sounds that birds make that aren't songs. A big-eyed nocturnal bird, the nightjar, makes such a sound and thanks to high speed video and nighttime UCR biologist stakeouts, we now know how they do it and what it means.

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