I am translating a Spanish book and I have here a bird named in Spanish "pocoya", about which I know the following:
1) it flies at night
2) it makes sounds that allow to confuse it with an injured animal
3) it lives in Nicaragua or at least lived several centuries ago.
My own research brought me here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauraque and here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocellated_poorwill.
I don't know which one of them it could be, nor how it could be in English (the first article doesn't have an English version) when spoken (my indigenous people can't use Latin names, for sure...)
Thank you in advance for your quick response!