Last week we met Lucifer, so this week let’s stay in the realm of hell with the Satanic Nightjar (Eurostopodus diabolicus).
A bird with a fondness for pentagrams and blood rituals, the Satanic Nightjar is not to be trifled with. They have been blessed with dark powers beyond the comprehension of we mortal beings. They are the terror of the night, death on swift wings, eternal, immortal and the consumer of worlds.
Like everything supernatural, these Nightjars are poorly understood. They were first discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in 1931. They were only spotted for a second time in 1996, but since then we have come to learn more about this rare and elusive bird. They earned their fun name thanks to their call. They make a kind of plip-plop noise, like dripping water, but some people liken it to the sound of a bird pulling out a person’s eyes. How they knew what eye-ball extraction sounded like, I’m not sure, but I can only assume a lot of double-blind studies were conducted to work it out.
Whilst we can never be sure how diabolical these birds are, researchers favour keeping the name as a way to draw more attention to this little-known, endangered bird. And that seems like a good enough reason to me.
But to finish up, let’s answer the most important question of all. Can they blend?
Yes.
Some more good news at hand. Have you ever wondered how many different bird species there are? No? Just me? Okay, well, I looked into it anyway, and if you’d like to find out why that question is nearly impossible to answer, then pop on over to your favourite podcast app, and I’ll lay it out for you (Apple, Spotify).
24/10/2021
Bird of the Week 