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Satanic Nightjar № 182

Satanic Nightjar

Eurostopodus diabolicus

Named diabolicus for a belief on Sulawesi that its call is the sound of it plucking out someone's eyes, though that call may belong to another bird. In a torch beam its own eyes glow purple.

Photo · William Stephens · CC BY 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Cropped and resized.

Call · Yong Ding Li · CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 · source · xeno-canto. Trimmed to 30 seconds, volume normalised.

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