Humans use calendars, while animals track the seasons in myriad ways — but the red-necked nightjar answers only to the moon. Every month, as the moon waxes and wanes, this nocturnal bird adjusts its ...

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A series of sharp cracks splits the nighttime air in a forest in the Andean foothills. But this isn’t the sound of boots snapping twigs underfoot. It’s a bird. Nightjars are largely nocturnal, ...

Some birds sing to attract a mate. Others dance or display colorful feathers. But in the moonlit forests and shrublands of northern Argentina, one bird courts romance by snapping its wrists together, ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ results from 2025 moonlit surveys of owls and nightjars show that some of the bird populations are declining. DNR’s Monitoring of Owls and Nightjars, or MOON, ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ results from 2025 moonlit surveys of owls and nightjars show ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A factory on Burton Street where workers once built grave vaults for the dead is now turning out products to invigorate the living: cedar‑lined saunas and coffin-sized cold‑plunge ...

Norfolk runner Logan Smith is training indoors in multiple layers of clothing to replicate the humid conditions of New Delhi Battling bitter Arctic winds and piercing rain, Logan Smith's training ...

WOODMERE, Ohio – After months of planning and designing, Sam Friedman will open the eagerly awaited jazz bar/lounge Nightjar in Eton on Friday, Feb. 13. The very next day – Valentine’s Day – the ...

To enter Nightjar, guests make their way down a quiet alleyway, cross the threshold, and push through a plush set of drapes. The short journey takes them from a generic shopping plaza and into a dimly ...

Heath Ledger won a posthumous Academy Award months after his shocking 2008 death Anthony Harvey/Getty Heath Ledger died as his career was reaching a fever pitch. The actor, best known for a wide ...