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American novels adapted into television shows The Puerto Rican nightjar or Puerto Rican Whip-poor-will (Antrostomus noctitherus) is a bird in the nightjar family found in the coastal dry scrub forests in localized areas of southwestern Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rican nightjars, whose song is composed of rapid "whip" notes, are small birds about 22–23"nbsp;cm in length, weighing 39-41 g.

Puerto Rican nightjars have large, dark black eyes, a short gray bill, and gray tarsi.

Like all nightjars, they possess stiff bristles around the beak to help with the capture of insects in flight.

The Puerto Rican nightjar was first discovered as a single skin specimen found in the Northern part of Puerto Rico in 1888, and rediscovered and correctly identified in 1916 when bones were discovered in a cave in northern Puerto Rico.

The nightjar is presently mostly found in closed canopy dry forest on limestone soils with abundant leaf litter and an open understorey.

The first nesting record of the Puerto Rican nightjar in Maricao State Forest was reported in 2005.

The Puerto Rican nightjar feeds on beetles, moths and other insects that it catches in flight.

Like many ground-nesting birds, the nightjar will try to divert the attention of potential predators away from the nest by conspicuously flying away and vibrating its wings.

Estimates of the breeding population of Puerto Rican nightjars in 1962 were of less than 100 pairs.

Puerto Rican nightjars are considered to be under pressure from habitat loss due to urban development and agricultural expansion, and through predation by introduced predators such as the small Indian mongoose and feral cats, and native predators such as owls.

It is possible that the large scale deforestation that occurred during the late 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s is the reason that the nightjars are no longer found on the north part of the island.

Puerto Rican nightjar with chick.