Sombre Nightjar (Caprimulgus fraenatus)

Other Names (World)
Sombre Nightjar, Dark Nightjar, Dusky Nightjar(!)

Family
Caprimulgidae (Nightjars)

Size
23 cm

First Described (Guide)
Salvadori, 1884

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland. From sea-level - 3,200 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Botswana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Burundi, Uganda.

Patchily from Ethiopia and north-western Somalia south to north-eastern Tanzania.

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 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

Sombre Nightjar (Caprimulgus fraenatus) [XC140548]
by id from Gayo (village), Ethiopia (call)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Rufous-cheeked Nightjar (Caprimulgus rufigena) and European Nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus), and formerly considered conspecific with Rufous-cheeked Nightjar (Caprimulgus rufigena). In the past, birds of Kenya occasionally separated as subspecies keniensis, but probably not sufficiently distinct.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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