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 LC    Spot-tailed Nightjar* Id (Atlas):
    Hydropsalis maculicaudus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Spot-tailed Nightjar, Pitsweet

Family
Caprimulgidae (Nightjars)

Size
19 - 21 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Lawrence, 1862)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical seasonally wet / flooded grassland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 500 m.

Range (Guide)
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

Unknown to Ecuador.

Discontinuously from south-eastern Mexico to the Guianas; and discontinuously from north-western and northern Brazil south through south-eastern Peru, northern and east-central Bolivia to eastern Paraguay and south-eastern Brazil.
 
Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 499,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

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

 
Spot-tailed Nightjar (Hydropsalis) [XC310723]
     by Manuel Grosselet from Minatitlan, refineria de SAnta Alejandrina, Veracruz, Mexico (song)

 
Spot-tailed Nightjar (Hydropsalis) [XC498051]
     by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Setor Samambaia, mata seca, perto da UFG-Agronomia, Goi\u00e2nia-Goi\u00e1s, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
Considered by some authors sufficiently distinctive to merit isolation in a separate genus, in which case Antiurus is available. Disjunct populations could represent more than one species.

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
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