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The strangest bird wings you'll ever see in nature (video)

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Apr 16, 2025
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Standard-Winged Nightjar (Morphart Creation/shutterstock.com)

The Standard-Winged Nightjar is one of the coolest and strangest looking birds I've seen. When I first watched this video, I thought the bird had TV antennas stuck to its wings. Once it took off in flight, I realized what I was looking at.

Male nightjars sport incredibly long primary feathers—r…

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