Great Eared Nightjar: The Dragon Bird

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  • @rainbowcat7806
    @rainbowcat7806 ปีที่แล้ว +973

    Now I’m wondering if a nightjar has ever accidentally landed on another, camouflaged nightjar…

    • @kray3883
      @kray3883 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      I think it was a cut scene from Laurel and Hardy...or maybe The Three Stooges.

    • @pinchebruha405
      @pinchebruha405 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Only on ‘Hump Day’ when it is officially ordained by the lord of the forests! 😂😂😂

    • @G8oo8N8
      @G8oo8N8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lmfao😂

    • @astuteanansi4935
      @astuteanansi4935 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Making it a Jarjar

    • @Babesinthewood97
      @Babesinthewood97 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That’s how babies are made

  • @junglechick13
    @junglechick13 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    The nightjars here in Costa Rica have a lovely distint call. You hear them most in dry season when they seem to be more active. Love hearing them!

  • @Sunflowersarepretty
    @Sunflowersarepretty ปีที่แล้ว +244

    I loved hearing their sounds. ❤ they are so adorable.

  • @yuukisama2001
    @yuukisama2001 ปีที่แล้ว +364

    I guess it proves all the more that dinos and birds have a connection. I've never heard of the Nightjar. But just from that shot they looked like little dragons. Now we're gonna look at them in a whole new light. I mean look at the feather layout. It looks like dragon scales.

    • @YuubiTimberwolf
      @YuubiTimberwolf ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Nightjars look so close to Anurognathus, a jurassic pterasaur!
      So they are close to dinosaurs!

    • @yuukisama2001
      @yuukisama2001 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@YuubiTimberwolf Wow! That is amazing.

    • @Hi_Im_Akward
      @Hi_Im_Akward ปีที่แล้ว

      Birds ARE dinosaurs. The non avian dinosaurs went extinct, the birds are the last surviving lineage of dinosaurs.

    • @ominous-omnipresent-they
      @ominous-omnipresent-they ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Birds are dinosaurs.

    • @ominous-omnipresent-they
      @ominous-omnipresent-they ปีที่แล้ว +21

      ​@@YuubiTimberwolf Pterosaurs aren't dinosaurs, but birds are.

  • @bestpriest2224
    @bestpriest2224 ปีที่แล้ว +272

    Woah they look terrifying.
    Terrifyingly cute.

    • @moyadkwt8178
      @moyadkwt8178 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂❤

    • @moyadkwt8178
      @moyadkwt8178 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      لقد وجدت واحدا الان في البيت

  • @rhondahuggins9542
    @rhondahuggins9542 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I am a native of The Arkansas Ozarks. It's a sure sign that warm weather is coming when we can hear The Whip-O-Will. Their call takes me home.❤

  • @bumpedhishead636
    @bumpedhishead636 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    Great Eared Nightjar: "I'm Batman."

    • @luistheoctoling2195
      @luistheoctoling2195 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Female Nightjar: For all I know, you could be Batman!

    • @rvd64
      @rvd64 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Batmam,”I’m nightjar!”

  • @LifeSGambit
    @LifeSGambit ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Nightjars are really remarkable and beautiful to see. Its always a joy to see them in our forests in singapore. They way they fly like butterflies and falling leaves, its real relaxing and a joy
    to watch

  • @natashadawe6051
    @natashadawe6051 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    MY FAVOURITE BIRD (nightjars,nighthawks,potoos,frogmouths,oilbirds,swallows,swifts,martins and some others

  • @DanGamingFan2406
    @DanGamingFan2406 ปีที่แล้ว +266

    These birds are adorable. The great earred nightjar is my favorite too. The ear flaps and the wide mouth, we all know who that looks like.

    • @RosheenQuynh
      @RosheenQuynh ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Who...?

    • @UrbanOutlawsSk8Co
      @UrbanOutlawsSk8Co ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Toothless

    • @FeuillageFlor-faune
      @FeuillageFlor-faune ปีที่แล้ว +11

      My favorite is the pennant winged nightjar, it's single huge feather in its wing is so majestic!

    • @AifDaimon
      @AifDaimon ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ​@@RosheenQuynhToothless from the How to Train Your Dragon franchise

    • @jamiejones3309
      @jamiejones3309 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Like a flying Staffie!

  • @FKyoutubeSERIOUSLY
    @FKyoutubeSERIOUSLY ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Love a bird that's able to look distinguished while whistling a sweet tune.

  • @MLHunt
    @MLHunt ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Whip-poor-wills were common where I grew up. I miss hearing them in summer evenings.

  • @MeAuntieNora
    @MeAuntieNora ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Fus Ro DANG that's one cute bird.

    • @OXMStudios
      @OXMStudios ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ahh ha!

    • @bradohms
      @bradohms ปีที่แล้ว

      @cartoonistlouis773Most things are

  • @yayrayday
    @yayrayday ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Nightjars/nighthawks are so darn cute and weird, I love them! I thought they were all the same group as the potoos and frogmouths but today I learned!!
    Also if I had to suggest a bird, it would be the MAGPIE!! They're such beautiful intelligent birds, and underappreciated since crows and ravens get so much attention for their smarts.

  • @wxlurker
    @wxlurker ปีที่แล้ว +72

    When they open their mouths so widely in the thumbnail it reminds me of the potoo. Thank you for always introducing me to animals I would not have otherwise known about!

    • @rhyothemisprinceps1617
      @rhyothemisprinceps1617 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Me too, so I looked it up - nightjars and potoos are related. *Update/Correction:* As pointed out in the video, their classification was split in 2021. However, the nightjars and potoos are still in the same clade - Strisores. Wikipedia has more info on this. {I posted before watching the video since I like to save animal videos for after-dinner tv watching with family.}

    • @draconinja2728
      @draconinja2728 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@rhyothemisprinceps1617 so they are from the same family of Muppet birds, nice.

    • @rhyothemisprinceps1617
      @rhyothemisprinceps1617 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sorry, I posted in error (corrected above). However, they are in the same clade (Strisores). @@draconinja2728

  • @tonydeluna8095
    @tonydeluna8095 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Great video as always, truly, what a beautiful animal. And their whistles are so cute. Love the bloopers !

  • @amnesiagreens
    @amnesiagreens ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Love these birds! Very talented! Great video!! ✨

  • @weirdredpanda
    @weirdredpanda ปีที่แล้ว +7

    My favorite is the whippoorwill, because I hear them a lot where I live, although I've never seen one, except in pictures. I didn't even remember what they looked like or that they are in the nightjar family until this video.
    It's interesting that the video showed killdeer, because we have them all over the place here. You'll see them all the time around parking lots and in farmland. A video about them would be cool. I've seen the whole "broken wing" act they do. That's when you know that there is a nest or baby nearby. Their babies are so cute. They look like miniature fuzzy versions of the adults.

  • @nicholethechronichousewife480
    @nicholethechronichousewife480 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I loved that ending! You are just as adorable as all these sweet birdies!

  • @markpimlott2879
    @markpimlott2879 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    'Very interesting and very well presented Irnia!
    As a naturalist from North America, I'm only really familiar with Nighthawks and the Eastern Whip-poor-will!
    I didn't realize that the Nightjars were so diverse and were so cosmopolitan in their distribution!
    🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦

  • @oliviaswarden6077
    @oliviaswarden6077 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Beautiful birds I have never seen them. Ty for doing an episode on them! Learning something new today!

  • @kevieboy420
    @kevieboy420 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My favorite is the whipper will I love listening to it to fall asleep out camping

  • @bjrn-einarnilsen687
    @bjrn-einarnilsen687 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Do really love the nightjars. I am a Norwegian living in Brazil, and here we have a lot of them. My favorite is the Macropsalis forcipata, Long-trained Nightjar.

  • @TheRubywolf01
    @TheRubywolf01 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    🎉 I’ve been waiting so long for this one thank you so much

  • @matthuck378
    @matthuck378 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    A silent forest is so much creepier than a 'loud' one.

  • @Timmycoo
    @Timmycoo ปีที่แล้ว +9

    You have to love how the human mind links perceived perception to imagination when naming animals. "They must've been going after the utters!" lol.
    This are definitely up there in some of my favorite birds. They are adorable.

  • @akhilvinayakmenon
    @akhilvinayakmenon ปีที่แล้ว +9

    have been lucky to witness and photograph many of these species including the great eared nightjar! truly amazing birds and great job animalogic for bringing more awareness to these beautiful birds

  • @empressmarowynn
    @empressmarowynn ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That great eared nightjar in the tree with its adorable little call is one of the cutest things I've ever seen. I've never heard of these before and now I want to see one in person for cuteness overload.

  • @markoposavec9240
    @markoposavec9240 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Funny, I love the sound the eurasian nightjar makes. It is weird, it sounds like a really loud bug. But still that sound puts me to sleep.

  • @bowen13
    @bowen13 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I didn't know nightjars were split from frogmouths! Gonna have to go watch the frogmouth episode!

  • @greninjaguy5264
    @greninjaguy5264 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great eared nightjars are one of my favorite species of birds, right up there with secretary birds, penguins, and Victoria crowned pigeons (which I hope you guys do a video on sometime in the future).

  • @AshenThorne
    @AshenThorne ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is one of my friends' favorite birds! It's nice to see this channel covering them 😄

  • @carlunderwood790
    @carlunderwood790 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My favorite would be the common nighthawk. I fell in love with their calls along before I knew what they were.

  • @JohnDoeTheTroll
    @JohnDoeTheTroll ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love the bloopers at the end of the video. It shows you're just normal people like we are! ❤

  • @Brownyman
    @Brownyman ปีที่แล้ว +6

    There have been recently paleontological discoveries of an early bird but not with feather wings but bat like membrane wings called "Yi qi".
    Could make a great Paleologic!

  • @entguarde
    @entguarde ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Lovely birds! Here in New Jersey, I don’t see nightjars often (mostly because it’s so dang dark at night, thanks woods), but the other week while out on a walk, I got to see one of the last few straggler common nighthawks! My mom thinks they look creepy, but they’re hella cute to me

  • @blessedbeauty2293
    @blessedbeauty2293 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    - Super cool bird !! I just love your videos !! Thanks guys ❤

  • @monicayoknis8670
    @monicayoknis8670 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We have common nighthawk around here, they are one of my favorite birds to see coming back in spring

  • @Origamigryphon
    @Origamigryphon ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Chuck-Will's-Widow's call (at 8:14) instantly took me back to summer nights back home in Georgia.

  • @SydneyLarrikin-ci2vz
    @SydneyLarrikin-ci2vz 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I saw one of these 8 feet away while in Costa Rica last month

  • @daphneefournier7671
    @daphneefournier7671 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Whip-poor-will still my favorite because his sound reminds me last days at school and vacations when I was young. I'm so happy to discover so many other speacies around the world.

  • @takenname8053
    @takenname8053 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Big mouths always evolve in interesting ways

  • @Ihwaz13
    @Ihwaz13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think eurasian nightjars sound adorable. I once went on a university excursion, where we slept in tents and got to listen to the nightjars singing every night.

  • @deborahdanhauer8525
    @deborahdanhauer8525 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I grew up with the sound of the whippoorwill… I love that sound❤️🐝🤗

  • @theoriginalchefboyoboy6025
    @theoriginalchefboyoboy6025 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the coloring and patterns on these birds is spectacular...

  • @chairshoe81
    @chairshoe81 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    one thing they didnt talk about: nighthawks do this mating dive that makes the air move through their feathers in a way that makes them vibrate, creating this crazy growling kind of sound. if youve ever gone camping and were terrified all night because you kept hearing something like a bear growl, this is what you were hearing.

  • @jamescanjuggle
    @jamescanjuggle ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:10
    Looks like a snake almost! Really cool displays

  • @Pygmygerbil88
    @Pygmygerbil88 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    99%mouth
    1%eye
    10000%cuteness

  • @kaih1758
    @kaih1758 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I like the one that looks like a dragon.

  • @satyadebchand8627
    @satyadebchand8627 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yup, that's Toothless

  • @minionytcodm839
    @minionytcodm839 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    At Malaysia we see this bird in midnight with the red eyes 😮

  • @cosmoredeathwish2319
    @cosmoredeathwish2319 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Honestly, this reminds me of the Dragonfolly, a boss from the Calamity mod who is an Offshoot of dragonkind

  • @medenadrakorus9542
    @medenadrakorus9542 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ah I love these guys! I love using them as feather spec for troodontids. It just feels like they have the same vibes.

  • @riverbender9898
    @riverbender9898 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They are a fascinating family indeed! Thank you.

  • @GxAxMxExOxVx3xR
    @GxAxMxExOxVx3xR ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was very good to watch. Enjoyed

  • @Reyma777
    @Reyma777 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It’s surprising that Nightjars, Owlet-Night Jars, Frogmouths and oilbirds all belong to separate, but related orders. The previously mentioned birds are all fairly similar looking.

  • @kesler4982
    @kesler4982 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    those bloopers were so cute.

  • @kimspurre1242
    @kimspurre1242 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That great eared nightjar looks like a bird with a cats head to me😃 I also love the sounds that they make. I don’t think there are any species near me in Southern California but if there were I could fall asleep to their sounds no problem. And they’re all so cute!

  • @alphakowaclips
    @alphakowaclips ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Not the earrings!! 😂 *earrings were hurt during the making of this video*

  • @crazioma6648
    @crazioma6648 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The common Poor-Will is my favorite I guess because they live in the edges of mixed forest/meadow near my home. My dad called them night hawks and for years I thought they were actually a tiny raptor...

  • @Semirotta
    @Semirotta ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Animalogic, one of my favorite channels out here. Can't go wrong when clicking to this channel :)

  • @martachtman1285
    @martachtman1285 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your channel is great. I`m a nightjar fan anyway, so this is my favourite video of yours I´ve seen so far. Irania Eyer is very competent & charming.

  • @mr.hellofan374
    @mr.hellofan374 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This Bird is literally “ :O “

  • @SustainableDreams
    @SustainableDreams 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    SO cool! Thanks! Plus, we really enjoyed your facial expressions! Adds such oomph and excitement!!! ❤

  • @ritawilbur6128
    @ritawilbur6128 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wait -- the Whippoorwill is a Nightjar?????? I thought I'd never heard of these birds before, but I have for sure HEARD a Whippoorwill!

  • @CLAYMOR916
    @CLAYMOR916 ปีที่แล้ว

    She’s so beautiful. I love her smile.

  • @terryhere3889
    @terryhere3889 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    European Nightjar is my favourite as I was so lucky to experience an encounter with a breading pair feeding and hearing their amazing calls for two nights in a row while camping in The New Forest (uk)

  • @nativeatlantic
    @nativeatlantic ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Video! I'm a Wildlife Photographer and Naturalist Educator in the DMV area Mid-Atlantic, USA. Videos like this make tracking species in the field so much easier, and more fun!! Me and my Students love you guys, Keep up the Great Work!!

  • @bellatiger2329
    @bellatiger2329 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love your videos!🤩 Please do a video about the bird-family of Swifts!
    They spend years in the air without touching the ground at all during this time!!! 🤯

  • @alanhelton
    @alanhelton ปีที่แล้ว

    I love nightfalls. The sound they make in a dive is simply pure… amazing

  • @SilverDemon456
    @SilverDemon456 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I first heard of nightjars from the song Nightjar by Sleepthief. That song makes them seem so magical and mysterious.

  • @jeremycompton9322
    @jeremycompton9322 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was a great video! Thank you for the work it took to produce this❤ I will keep my eyes out for them.

  • @fishdude666ify
    @fishdude666ify ปีที่แล้ว

    They look like miniature potoo. Weirdly cute. OMG THOSE CHICKS ARE ADORABLE!!!

  • @CheapoK17
    @CheapoK17 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The inclusion of the sounds they make was really cool

  • @pixelspeaksphotography1761
    @pixelspeaksphotography1761 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lovely. The avian world is beautiful. And nice creation as well.

  • @-longboardswordstyle701
    @-longboardswordstyle701 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:56 okay so thats the cutest bird ive ever seen in my life

  • @overstargaming9257
    @overstargaming9257 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is so awesome! I saw this bird while I was out fishing last night, I was catching crawdads and I saw on of these fellas on the dirt but I only saw it’s eye, I thought it was a snake or something so I go to it and it’s this bird, I got about 5 feet away from it before it decided to fly off but I’m surprised it let me get that close!

  • @evgeniydragondog
    @evgeniydragondog ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:17 Perfect!

  • @Yangin12
    @Yangin12 ปีที่แล้ว

    The way the the narrator talks is calm and expressive at the same time it's cool

  • @karhlhenselien2260
    @karhlhenselien2260 ปีที่แล้ว

    Our Australian tawny frogmouth has an awesome blood curdling scream that usually happens at just on dark.I love em

  • @darrelbrooks4687
    @darrelbrooks4687 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When I was a kid in TEXAS we called them Bull Bats.
    They made a big broooumm sound almost like a bull frog.

  • @Magnum3144
    @Magnum3144 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Uh, i just learned that a whipoorwill is a nightjar. Thought i was finding out about a bird i had never heard of, turns out i just had more to learn about something i thought i knew. Cool

  • @OgrabliatorKorovanov
    @OgrabliatorKorovanov 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    wazup my nightjars!

  • @RobinMarks1313
    @RobinMarks1313 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Great Eared Nightjar! Now I know where the Japanese company Toho got their model for Rodan!

  • @Oiyuki
    @Oiyuki ปีที่แล้ว

    The great earred nightar is so cute! His little call like “toot! woo hoo” which for some reason it is extremely cute to me

  • @Jukisoba
    @Jukisoba 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The ghastly sound is on point, considering it's role in Finnish folklore. Many birds were considered to be spirit birds, and Nightjar was said to be a soul of a young woman, who was obsessed with spinning textiles like yarn - hence the finnish name of the bird "kehrääjä", spinner.

  • @corndogrequiem1728
    @corndogrequiem1728 ปีที่แล้ว

    Whipperwills are the most relaxing sound to fall asleep to!

  • @StevenAndTraceyJiles
    @StevenAndTraceyJiles ปีที่แล้ว

    These are so abundant in the Phoenix AZ area, and they give off this weird sonar like eco location sounds at night to locate insects. They swarm around street lamps. They are also preyed upon by owls.

  • @Just_a_Goth
    @Just_a_Goth ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the uniqueness of the Nighyjars and Potoos/Frogmouths.

  • @lazyraven8579
    @lazyraven8579 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The vikings are searching for this little dude

  • @melodyparra2960
    @melodyparra2960 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They look like they can breathe fire like an actual dragon, while sucking your soul out and possibly screaming so loud that it renders you unconscious

  • @MLeoDaalder
    @MLeoDaalder ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh, so these are the birds that almost got us in trouble! Perhaps 10 or more years ago we had an application that used the original recaptcha for bot prevention (you know, the one that used scanned books). And one day we got a call from a very flustered customer. After some prying we managed to figure out what had gone wrong. They had gotten a complaint about a word used by recaptcha. It was the goat pseudonym, except the s was elongated (it was from a very old book), which to modern eyes looks like an F. Yeah that was embarrassing. Somehow the customer did not find it reassuring that the F was in fact an S. XD

  • @EventHorizonPrdctns
    @EventHorizonPrdctns ปีที่แล้ว

    So glad animal logic has a special segment dedicated to birds, since birds aren't animals!

  • @chargingstar9119
    @chargingstar9119 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was here for dragons and birds and..... she has a beautiful smile

  • @galaxydmello2570
    @galaxydmello2570 ปีที่แล้ว

    Girl, i just love your expressions.

  • @AnimeShinigami13
    @AnimeShinigami13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I once spent about an hour trying to get a photograph of a bunch of Kildeer. But I could never get close enough!

  • @sweetstrawberry2470
    @sweetstrawberry2470 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    i have a chuck wills widow in my back yard and one across from my house in FL.. they're annoying once they start they don't shut up again until sunrise

  • @Lord.Kiltridge
    @Lord.Kiltridge ปีที่แล้ว

    I grew up spending my summers in the Muskoka area of Ontario Canada through the 1970's. We could hear Eastern whip-poor-wills pretty much every night, but I had never knowingly seen one.

  • @monicareid8858
    @monicareid8858 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You mentioned night hawks, but not how they scream and zoom down to catch their prey.
    It’s fascinating

  • @lalicornenoire
    @lalicornenoire ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you find the sound of Nightjar eerie, wait until you hear the Loon!