{"id":11190,"date":"2015-10-26T09:57:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=11190"},"modified":"2018-10-04T10:00:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T17:00:35","slug":"scary-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/26\/scary-update\/","title":{"rendered":"A Truly Scary Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

And you thought skimming the occasional milk pail was bad.<\/p>\n

The month of Halloween seems a good time to recall that nightjars, those mysterious nocturnal
\nflutterers, have been rumored to engage in behavior far more treacherous than merely suckling at the udders of defenseless livestock.<\/p>\n

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In 1750, the Pomeranian ornithologist Jacob Theodor Klein listed as names for the European nightjar \u201cwitch,\u201d \u201cnight harmer,\u201d and something that seems to mean \u201cchild smotherer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of us may have our doubts, but the terrifying engraving that accompanies Klein\u2019s account convinces me. Myself, I\u2019m keeping the windows closed until Halloween is past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And you thought skimming the occasional milk pail was bad. The month of Halloween seems a good time to recall that nightjars, those mysterious nocturnal flutterers, have been rumored to engage in behavior far more treacherous than merely suckling at the udders of defenseless livestock. In 1750, the Pomeranian ornithologist Jacob Theodor Klein listed as … <\/p>\n

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