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Lyre-tailed nightjar        Image © Mark A. Chappell

As their name implies, male lyre-tailed nightjars have spectacularly long trailing tail feathers, but females look like typical highly camouflaged nightjars.   This female was brooding a large young bird on the roof of a hut along the Manu Road in eastern Peru. 

  • Canon 7D or 1D4, 500 mm f4 IS lens plus 1.4X converter, electronic flash (2011)