Great Eared Nightjar: The Dragon Bird 

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

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

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.

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!

those bloopers were so cute.

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

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

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

Hey Danielle Dufault, Why don’t you get to make a suggestion creating RU-vid Videos Shows all about the Extinct Prehistoric Amphicyons (Bear Dogs) on the next Animalogic’s Paleologic on the next Friday, coming up next?!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍👍👍👍👍

That thumbnail was sick this thing looks like an owl 2.0

I didn't know this bird existed 'til now. Nor that it's from the philippines! And i'm happy to report it's not endangered either

If they aren't sleep during day they just look super bored of pretending to be a twig lol

Love these birds, they remind me of the extinct pterasaur "Anurognathus" my fave pterasaur!

I love these birds so much!

Great eared nightjar and the two tails

Here in Brazil we have an urban one that nests on roofs, his calls sound like a man whistlening in the night. When I was younger I thought it was some douche teasing people trying to sleep all night long. People here don't seem to even adress the noise, it's so elusive that I never saw one despite hearing the call many times.

These guys look WEIRD. Thanks for the video!

Thank you cuz I seen one in 1994 when I was 9, ain't seen one since but I never forgot cuz it was a lil disturbing 😂

So cool! I've never even heard of these birds before ❤ thanks so much for the easy to digest info :)

They're like cuter versions of the frog mouth birds.

what are you talking about, that's obviously a night fury, not a birb

I want one.

Ah yes, the toothless bird

Burb go ascoopy scoop!

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Do the roadrunner

Is it related to the pootoo bird? Has similar mouth.

WAIT WAIT WAIT... You're telling me the NIGHTJAR was the original chupacabra? 🤣

Woah they look terrifying. Terrifyingly cute.

Great Eared Nightjar: "I'm Batman."

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

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

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.

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!

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.❤

Fus Ro DANG that's one cute bird.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

'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! 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦

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

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

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

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

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.

I like the one that looks like a dragon.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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).

Please make a video about seriemas.

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

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.

Big mouths always evolve in interesting ways

The European night jar sounds fine to me, not particularly witchy to this witch

99%mouth 1%eye 10000%cuteness

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

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

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.

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

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

But for those cute ears, much like our frogmouths in Australia.

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.

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!!! 🤯

Her name, Aranya, in the language Kannada, the official language of the state of Karnataka in India, literally means "Forest"

The God's Truly Watch then... SHE 🌍 WATCHES

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

Ok amazi'g I loved this

This was very good to watch. Enjoyed

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

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

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

I had to google what the name of those birds were in Portuguese and I found out it is "bacurau". That's the name of a very famous and acclaimed Brazilian movie. I had no idea it was named after a bird.

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

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.

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.

What’s up with this host talking out of one side of her mouth? It’s hard to focus on what she’s saying with her mouth being such a distraction.

I feel like this is where Bats 🦇 evolved from….maybe they lost feathers 🪶 due to increased heat or climate change? Bats are mammals right?

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

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

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...

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!

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

Another Amazing Animal! Can you please do the Hoatzin next?

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

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

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Why is she word chewing? (TikTok mouth)

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!

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

That bird looks ready to fight Gamera. 😅

The witch ones just sound like a frog to me lol

Excelente 👌

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