The red-necked nightjar has a problem most predators don’t: it hunts by a light it cannot control. A nocturnal bird that catches moths and other flying insects on the wing over southern Spain, it ...

The mysterious nightjar is among the species being tracked as part of the largest survey of heathland birds for more than 20 years. The study, organised by the British Trust for Ornithology, will also ...

A male nightjar in flight. ‘As the bird moves so the glittering call shifts through the plantation shadows.’Photograph: David Tipling/Alamy The setting sun spread a last Iberian glow over the hills ...