Seeing this bird was a great surprise. Two or three days earlier some in the group had seen a male Lyre-tailed Nightjar fly from one tree to another in the deep dusk of evening. I blinked and missed seeing that bird, but we also got to hear it. Here, near Mashpi and right at the gated entrance of the Nat Geo lodge, was a female sitting on her nest. I must have taken 20 photos, basically all the same. Here are a few of those.
Female Lyre-tailed Nightjar (Uropsalis lyra)
I admit the noisy diesel truck engine is an unpleasant distraction, but the bird does not seem to mind during this 41 second video, so I try to not to let it bother me either.
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