Goatsucker - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: goatsuckerDorhawk
The European goatsucker so called because it eats the dor beetle See Goatsucker...
Nightjar
A goatsucker esp the European species See Illust of Goatsucker...
Caprimulgidae
a widely distributed natural family of nocturnally active birds including the whip poor will Caprimulgus vociferus the chuck wills widow Caprimulgus carolinensis and the common nighthawk Chordeiles minor called popularly the goatsuckers or nightjars The nighthawks are sometimes active during the day...
Caprimulgiformes
an order of birds including the goatsuckers Caprimulgidae frogmouths and the oilbird guacharo family Steatornithidae...
Chuck Wills widow
A large whippoorwill like bird a species of goatsucker Caprimulgus carolinensis formerly Antrostomus Carolinensis of the southern United States so called from its note...
Fissirostral
Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers...
Goatsucker
One of several species of insectivorous birds belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera esp the European species Caprimulgus Europaeligus so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats The European species is also goat milker goat owl goat chaffer fern owl night hawk nightjar night churr churr owl gnat hawk and dorhawk...
Jar owl
The goatsucker...
Morepork
The Australian crested goatsucker AEliggotheles Novaelig Hollandiaelig Also applied to other allied birds as Podargus Cuveiri...
Nyctibune
A South American bird of the genus Nyctibius allied to the goatsuckers...
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