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A messenger of death with an upright tablet. The gigantic nightjar scared the Indians with its howl, and now it makes everyone laugh with its appearance If everyone really is greeted by their clothes, then I would prefer not to meet the gigantic nightjar, at least not under the cover of darkness. Mournful crying in the dark, two burning lights of huge eyes and silent flight - insomnia from meeting a feathered ghost is guaranteed! However, it’s worth taking a closer look at the animal and you realize that it’s not an alien or evil spirits, but a cute feathered amphibian native to South America. Birds looks like he was trying to hold back a powerful sneeze and went a little overboard. The bright yellow eyes bulged and squeezed out in different directions, and the chirping spread out from ear to ear, forming a truly huge pink mouth for its modest dimensions of 30-40 cm. However, you are unlikely to see such a scarecrow during the day. Gigantic nightjars are not fans of the warmth of the sun and good lighting; they are children of the night and behave accordingly. When the light is high, nightjars take the pose of a person who is trying to correct their posture - they stretch their neck and everything that is screwed to it as straight as possible. In this way, the bird magically turns into a pop-eyed twig, fortunately the camouflage color helps with authenticity. The animal puts all its talent into camouflage; often nightjars stoically tolerate violations of personal space, just so as not to give themselves away. In this standing position, nightjars wait until dusk to go hunting. Who makes them hungry? In ancient times, people believed that nightjars had a special passion for the milk of goats and cows. Obviously, since they swarm around the cattle in whole flocks, it means they want to steal our milk! However, the unfairly accused birds did not need anyone's milk; they came for clouds of flies, mosquitoes and moths that had flown on the scent of sweat and manure left over from the cows. Like a tiny whale among schools of buzzing fish, the nightjar heads for the ram and opens its mouth wide and begins to eat, cruising back and forth, scooping up all these insects with its built-in net. Nightjars devote their free time from filling their stomachs to music. A mournful howl, a little like crying, is heard over the night forest. Such background music frightened the superstitious ancestors of the current inhabitants of Argentina and Brazil to the point that the poor whippoorwill was recorded as an evil spirit. Now the bird's songs do not cause such an effect. Even if the nightjar’s serenades didn’t work out well, their family ties are still strong. Monogamous birds prefer to raise only one offspring at a time. For this act, they select a stump or a broken branch with a small cavity, where a single egg is accurately placed. The new parents then begin cosplaying as a continuation of the lumber being used, taking turns incubating the chick.