Ocellated Poorwill (Nyctiphrynus ocellatus)

Family
Caprimulgidae (Nightjars)

Size
20 - 25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Tschudi, 1844)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. From sea-level - 1,350 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras (B), Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru.

Vagrant to Panama (NB).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2012) and decreasing.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (18)...)

Ocellated Poorwill (Nyctiphrynus ocellatus) [XC783425]
by Fernando Igor de Godoy from Po\u00e7\u00f5es, State of Bahia, Brazil (song)

Ocellated Poorwill (Nyctiphrynus ocellatus) [XC556457]
by Dante Buzzetti from Tabajara - Marg.Esq. do Machado, Brazil (canto)

Subspecies
Nyctiphrynus ocellatus (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Ocellated Poorwill (Nyctiphrynus ocellatus) and Choco Poorwill (Nyctiphrynus rosenbergi) following SACC (2005).

Until recently considered conspecific with Choco Poorwill (Nyctiphrynus rosenbergi), but differs vocally and may not even be closely related.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

lautus Miller, W & Griscom, 1925 - North-eastern Nicaragua, north-western Costa Rica and possibly Panama (Canal Zone); recently discovered breeding in extreme eastern Honduras.
ocellatus (Tschudi, 1844) - Central-southern Colombia, north-eastern Ecuador and eastern Peru to eastern Brazil and south through Bolivia and Paraguay to north-eastern Argentina and extreme southern Brazil.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Ocellated Poorwill (Nyctiphrynus ocellatus) - 10 files

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