ОДНАКО, МАСКИРОВОЧКА! NIGHTJAR. Nocturnal. Wonderful cryptic plumage looking like tree bark, and is difficult to see when roosting during the day. Hunts insects on the wing from dusk. Male has distinctive churring song, given at night. A typical habitat, one would say, but that is not wholly true. The ploughing of ancient heaths, encroaching buildings and recreational pressures have certainly helped to reduce numbers at an increasing rate during the last half century, but even before that fears were already being expressed. Not until fears were proven as fact was much done to attempt to reverse the situation and now a few of the remaining heaths are carefully managed to aid not just this bird but other heathland species. All the same, if the future of the nightjar depended upon these few strongholds, it would be bleak. Fortunately, nightjars find conditions to their liking in such places as cleared blocks of forestry plantation. They will stay just so long as the vegetation is at the required height and then will move on to another cleared block.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:23:08 +0000
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