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noun

any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.

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How to use owlet nightjar in a sentence

Then a nightjar began to hiss from among the rocks, and the stream to dash along more wildly.
Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events|S. Baring-Gould
It is easy to distinguish between the two owls, as the scops has aigrettes or "horns," which the spotted owlet lacks.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India|Douglas Dewar
Almost as abundant as the spotted owlet is the jungle owlet (Glaucidium radiatum).
A Bird Calendar for Northern India|Douglas Dewar
The third nightjar, which also is confined chiefly to forest tracts, is known as Franklin's nightjar (C. monticolus).
A Bird Calendar for Northern India|Douglas Dewar

In addition to this note Horsfield's nightjar emits a low soft chur, chur, chur.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India|Douglas Dewar