Algeria (B), Gibraltar, Guinea-bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco (B), Portugal (B), Spain (B), Tunisia (B), Western Sahara.
Vagrant to Burkina Faso, Côte dIvoire, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska), Denmark, France, Ghana, Italy, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Malta, Nigeria, Senegal, United Kingdom.
Population
Estimated population is 130,000 - 1,500,000 (2010).
Red-necked Nightjar (Caprimulgus ruficollis) [XC423884]
by Alexis Bukowski from Parque Nacional de Monfrag\u00fce (near Torrej\u00f3n el Rubio), C\u00e1ceres, Extremadura, Spain (song)
Red-necked Nightjar (Caprimulgus) [XC490181]
by Britta Szymczak from Camp de T\u00faria (near B\u00e9tera), Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain (song)
Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
ruficollis Temminck, 1820 - Spain, Portugal and northern Morocco.
desertorum Erlanger, 1899 - North-eastern Morocco, northern Algeria (south to Great Atlas Mts) and northern Tunisia.