goatsucker

For instance, goatsuckers, a group of birds that includes the whippoorwill, do not milk goats, Aristotle’s declaration to the contrary notwithstanding.

Nightjars, a kind of nighthawk also known as goatsuckers, sat on the roads that had been baked by the day’s sun to stay warm in the chilly night.

First referring it to the genus Caprimulgus, its original describer soon saw that it was no true goatsucker.

Both the nighthawk and the whip-poor-will belong to the goatsucker family.

A goatsucker may be confused with a swallow, and a swallow may pass as a tern.