Reclusive ground-nesting birds that sally out at night to hunt for large insects and similar prey.

It does, however, also eat other animals, such as small rodents and young of ground-nesting birds.

Its diet includes the eggs of ground-nesting birds.

A study of meadow pipits, a small ground-nesting bird, lends support to this third theory.

This makes the area very successful for many species of ground-nesting birds.

In a pinch, they have also been seen eating the eggs of ground-nesting birds and even shellfish on the seashore.

Similarly, some ground-nesting birds including the European nightjar select a resting position facing the sun.

For example, with ground-nesting birds such as ducks or turkeys, the young are ready to leave the nest in one or two days.

It was this which made the introduced Hedgehog the most significant contributer to the decline of ground-nesting birds.

Nothing is known about its ecology but it is probably a ground-nesting bird.