Locally fairly common breeding resident of open wooded areas, scrubs, sand dunes, grasslands and forests from dry lowlands to drier mid hills. Rare and local in wet lowlands. It lives as solitary birds or as pairs. Indian Nightjar is a nocturnal bird and during the day time it lies usually under the shade of a small bush or often quite in the open. It breeds from February to July and probably again in September, laying two eggs on the bare ground, usually under a thin bush.
