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 LC    Freckled Nightjar* Id (Atlas):
    Caprimulgus tristigma

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Freckled Nightjar, West African Freckled Nightjar, Rock Nightjar

Family
Caprimulgidae (Nightjars)

Size
25 cm

First Described (Guide)
Rüppell, 1840

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical high altitude grassland. From 600 - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Niger.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (58)...)

 
Freckled Nightjar (Caprimulgus tristigma) [XC300075]
     by Marc Thibault from Negash lodge, Ethiopia (song, long song)

 
Freckled Nightjar (Caprimulgus tristigma) [XC876505]
     by Marc Anderson from Makhado Local Municipality (near Louis Trichardt), Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa (song)

Subspecies
The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

  • sharpei Alexander, 1901   -  Guinea and northern Sierra Leone east to western Nigeria, western Cameroon, northern Equatorial Guinea and central Central African Republic.
  • pallidogriseus Parker, RH & Benson, 1971   -  Nigeria (perhaps on Jos Plateau).
  • tristigma Rüppell, 1840   -  Ethiopia, southern Sudan and north-eastern Zaire south to Burundi and northern Tanzania.
  • lentiginosus Smith, A, 1845   -  Western Angola, north-western and west-central Namibia and western South Africa.
  • granosus Clancey, 1965   -  South-eastern Zaire, Zambia and southern Tanzania south to central-northern and eastern South Africa.



References
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Files:
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