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We saw the Nightjar perched on the same branch as yesterday. It was seen in broad daylight, clearly a regular roosting place for this individual. Similar looking individual was photographed by Rakesh Singha Dev , Sourav Halder few days back and it was suspected as Grey (if it's Grey , then must be on passage) after having a discussion with Ashwin Viswanathan because of the bold white undertail band. Today, after sundown we observed atleast 4/5 similar looking individuals started flying continuously. Some of them were photographed. Not vocal at all. We used playback of Grey Nightjar but they were not much bothered but once we played Jungle calls, some started flying very close over our heads and producing some different kind of call ( probably we will get those from our recordings ). It is confirmed that multiple individuals were present there and seemed to be a resident. It is not desirable to have so many Grey Nightjar together in passage. Here the area is well wooded and an habitat of Brown Wood Owls, and that individual was sitting on a very high (60-70 ft above ground level) branch of a tree, which is very unlikely for other Nightjars except Gray/Jungle ( as per distribution). So, we are almost confident that these individuals are Jungle but we'll wait for other birders to get it again at the same place after a week onwards because if those are Grey in passage then must be gone by that time. We can safely update the id to Jungle then. - Sandip Das 21.11.22 A group of birders got those Nightjars exactly at the same place on 19.11.22 (https://ebird.org/checklist/S122655231). Even with the help of one of our team member, they got the bird exactly on the same daytime roosting branch. As I already mentioned before that the birds were first seen by Rakesh Singha Dev and team on 5.11.22 (https://ebird.org/checklist/S121932725), so the birds can't be on passage. Thus updating the id to Jungle Nightjar. - Sandip Das
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