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30/07/2025

The secrets of the night guardian

In the forests of South America, myths have long surrounded the Common Pauraque (Nyctidromus albicollis). In Costa Rica, its call each April and May is said to summon the rains. In Peru, the Indigenous Uitoto believe it to be the abandoned son of the moon, saying that on clear nights it stares...