Long-tailed Nightjar (Caprimulgus climacurus)

Other Names (World)
Long-tailed Nightjar, Slender-tailed Nightjar(!)

Family
Caprimulgidae (Nightjars)

Size
28 - 43 cm

First Described (Guide)
Vieillot, 1825

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical and tropical dry shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Vagrant to Kenya.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (23)...)

Long-tailed Nightjar (Caprimulgus climacurus) [XC857244]
by Mark Harper from Sakumono, Tema Metropolitan, Greater Accra Region, Ghana (alarm call)

Long-tailed Nightjar (Caprimulgus climacurus) [XC393370]
by Juha Honkala from Guereo, Thi\u00e8s, Senegal (song)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Slender-tailed Nightjar (Caprimulgus clarus) and Mozambique Nightjar (Caprimulgus fossii), and all have frequently been separated in genus Scotornis. Dark, dull-coloured birds from Sierra Leone to southern Nigeria sometimes treated as separate subspecies leonini, but possibly intermediate between nominate and subspecies sclateri, or variant of latter.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

climacurus Vieillot, 1825 - Mauritania east to western Ethiopia (except White Nile in southern Sudan) and south to northern and south-eastern Zaire.
sclateri (Bates, 1927) - Humid belt of western Africa (boundaries between subspecies unclear).
nigricans (Salvadori, 1868) - White Nile in Sudan, from Kosti south to Shambe and L Nyubor. Also along Bahr el Zeraf and Sobat R.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Long-tailed Nightjar (Caprimulgus climacurus) - 10 files

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