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In his “Feather Report” of 27 October 1990, in The Times , Simon Barnes lists the following nicknames for the nightjar: fernowl, fen owl, jar-owl, churn-owl, goat-owl, goatsucker, nighthawk, dorhawk, moth hawk, wheelbird, puck bird, litch fowl , and gabble ratch , the last having its origins in the Norse meaning `corpse hound,' (similar to litch fowl , which means `corpse fowl').
This information he derived from The Nightjar Yesterday and Today , by Margaret Grainger and Richard Williamson (West Sussex Institute of Higher Education, Bishop Otter College), a source I have been unable to verify.
The last bird is an American nightjar , where jar is also an imitative word, referring to its loud churring cry.
So, the next time comment is made about all those words that fill up (and are omitted from) the English dictionaries, remember the nightjar and the drunk , here and abroad.