299: Nightjars

Just the Zoo of Us

Ellen & Christian Weatherford

Wildlife Science, Science, Zoology, Wildlife, Nature, Science Communication, Kids & Family, Animals, Pets & Animals

4.8 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Ellen gives the mysterious wing-clapping nightjars a round of applause.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hi there, everybody, it's Ellen Weatherford.
0:33.9	And Christian Weatherford.
0:35.0	And this is just the Zoo of Us, your favorite animal review podcast, where we review your favorite animals out of 10 in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.
0:43.7	We are not zoological experts, but we try to bring the best and most accurate information we can.
0:49.2	That's true. And I am really excited. I have a really delightful family of animals that I'm going to be talking about this week.
0:57.9	Okay.
0:58.3	And some we have a little bit of, a little bit of personal connection to, a little bit of personal experience around, I suppose.
1:06.9	This week I'll be talking about night jars.
1:10.0	Okay.
1:10.9	Do you know what a night jar is?
1:11.9	A bird.
1:12.5	Correct.
1:13.0	It is a bird.
1:14.5	They belong to the family Capramulgidi.
1:17.7	Interesting.
1:19.1	And members of the nightjar family, there are very many of them, but members of the
1:24.3	night jar family were submitted to us by listeners.
1:27.4	Dalton runberg
1:28.4	michael ryan abigail sanger naomi mulligan and callie suther now some of those were from a long time ago
1:35.9	i basically did like a google inbox search for nightjar and wrote down the names of everyone who emailed
1:43.0	those in and some of those were from a few years ago.
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