• JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Researchers looking for a nocturnal bird in Indonesia accidentally identified a new species of owl one that has a distinct whistling song and is believed to exist nowhere else in the world.

    NPR: Brown-And-White Whistling Owl ID'd As New Species

  • The people of Crotone are accustomed to making a nocturnal pilgrimage in their thousands on foot to Capo Colonna to pray before a Byzantine portrait of Mary in the small chapel on the promontory.

    ECONOMIST: Letter from Magna Graecia: Dear George?.?.?. | The

  • His Radio 4 show, Wireless Nights, sees him take listeners "on a nocturnal journey around stories of night people".

    BBC: Pulp's Jarvis Cocker up for best radio broadcaster

  • Known by locals as Kha-Nyou, the rodent is said to be a nocturnal vegetarian that prefers the cover of the forest.

    BBC: Totally new to science

  • Beware the Buggane -- a mischievous spirit who blows the roofs off buildings, or the ghostly Moddey Dhoo -- a nocturnal black dog associated with electrical storms.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Generally these milongas open at 11 pm, but Buenos Aires is a nocturnal city and the shows themselves don't normally start until after one in the morning.

    CNN: Dancing to the music of love in Buenos Aires

  • Of necessity, I was now a nocturnal creature.

    NEWYORKER: Wakefield

  • Too much of the second half is consumed by the nocturnal niceties of a drug plot a pity, because a film about the joys and travails of the American military abroad could hardly be more apposite.

    NEWYORKER: Buffalo Soldiers

  • For three weeks each year, cycling enthusiasts live a nocturnal existence - tuning into the coverage of the tour on the channel SBS either side of the midnight hour to cheer on the best cyclist that Australia has produced.

    BBC: Cycling fans' endurance rewarded

  • Mice and humans are physiologically alike, so a similar effect might be expected for people, but the fact that mice are nocturnal and humans diurnal is a serious complicating factor.

    ECONOMIST: Obesity: The dark side of light | The

  • Our nocturnal policymakers also agreed a second deal.

    BBC: Beneath the skin of the Leveson law

  • And while Cook is adapting to the demands, and nocturnal wails, of a new-born baby, Luevano hasn't made life any easier for himself by choosing to fly into the UK just five days before the fight, a decision Cook finds odd.

    BBC: SPORT | Boxing | Cook plays it cool

  • The meteoric first film by the French director Leos Carax, from 1984, hurls Alex (Denis Lavant), an aspiring filmmaker his own age, out of one desperately romantic relationship and into another, through a permanently nocturnal Parisian atmosphere of poetic coincidences and crazy risks.

    NEWYORKER: Boy Meets Girl

  • The armchair he painted for Gauguin is more substantial, with a gaslight behind it creating a mysterious, nocturnal effect.

    ECONOMIST: Van Gogh and Gauguin

  • Other unusual critters, including long-nosed bandicoots, tree kangaroos and ringtail possums, also haunt the crater: roll up after dusk with a flashlight to get a glimpse of these nocturnal marsupials.

    BBC: Escaping the heat in Far North Queensland

  • And whenever Batman ventures out on one of his nocturnal crime-fighting missions, he runs into a mysterious woman who dresses like a cat and carries a whip.

    NEWYORKER: Batman Returns

  • He marched off to see legislator Li Wah-ming, who organized a clandestine investigation into the sewage workers' nocturnal habits.

    CNN: The Whistleblowers

  • There's a very high chance of dry, settled nocturnal weather between now and Sunday night, with some local mistiness by dawn.

    BBC: Glastonbury Festival 2010 weather forecast

  • While the insight provided by nocturnal lighting levels has obvious limitations, the analysis is a helpful reminder that energy usage and economic growth are linked.

    FORBES: The Case for Keeping the Lights On

  • Catching sight of a wolf or a bear requires luck and patience, as they are nocturnal, elusive animals, but you may come across their tracks in the snow or the mud.

    BBC: Italy��s wilderness, far from the madding crowds

  • While historically, bats have had a bad reputation around the world, in Texas, these nocturnal cave dwellers are loved and cherished.

    BBC: Texas love bats

  • Half a century or so ago, the Klan was remembered for its nocturnal cross burnings, its bombing of black churches, its occasional murders.

    ECONOMIST: The Ku Klux Klan

  • His fiance convinced him to see a doctor, and after months of tests he was diagnosed with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), the first disease Soliris was approved to treat.

    FORBES: How A $440,000 Drug Is Turning Alexion Into Biotech's New Innovation Powerhouse

  • Many species are nocturnal, so be prepared for parades of curious possums looking for food after dark and a magnificent night time symphony of wildlife in the woods.

    BBC: A wild river valley outside of Sydney

  • Digital manipulation emphasizes the placement and the posture of the figures just enough to give them a speaking presence, and the stormy sky of the first picture and the nocturnal cast of the second breathe poetry.

    NEWYORKER: Flashes of Light

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