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Common Name: New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar

This origin of this species is uncertain; some think it may have evolved from the Australian Owlet-nightjar, but newer findings suggest that the New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar was derived from a species of birds from Frances, which then moved to places such as New Guinea and Australia.  They are small nocturnal creatures ranging from 20 to 25 centimeters in length which eat insects and occasionally small or young reptiles.  Owlet-nightjars are normally grey or russt in color.  Their breeding season is the later half of the year, when normally three or four eggs are tended by both the male and the female.  Once they hatch, the chicks leave after four or five weeks.  They tend to roost and nest in tree or rock hollows, preferably off of the ground.