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Definition of Goatsucker

Goatsucker
Goatsucker Goat"suck`er, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europ[ae]us); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk.

Meaning of Goatsucker from wikipedia

- Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal or crepuscular birds in the family Caprimulgidae /ˌkæprɪˈmʌldʒɪdiː/ and order Caprimulgiformes, characterised by long...
- The European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus), common goatsucker, Eurasian nightjar or just nightjar, is a crepuscular and nocturnal bird in the nightjar...
- The Australian owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles cristatus) is a nocturnal bird found in open woodland across Australia and in southern New Guinea. It is colloquially...
- The least poorwill or least pauraque (Siphonorhis brewsteri) is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae, and the only confirmed extant species...
- Astounding Wolf-Man, The Perhapanauts, and Firebreather. The first arc, "Goatsucker", concerns a cryptid attack in Minnesota that appears to be the work of...
- whip-poor-will, which the narrator referred to as a child as "The Nocturnal Goatsucker". In the fifth episode of the Netflix animated series The Midnight Gospel...
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- The Jamaican poorwill (Siphonorhis americana), also known as the Jamaican pauraque or Jamaican least pauraque, is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae...
- some local people linked it the legend of the chupacabra Nightjar or goatsucker (the English translation of chupacabra), a medium-sized nocturnal or crepuscular...
- interviews and do****entation collected during this process. Opening with "The Goatsucker Mystery," Radford introduced the essential portions of the chupacabra...