Plain Nightjar (Caprimulgus inornatus)

Other Names (World)
Plain Nightjar, Ludovic's Nightjar (possible subspecies ludovicianus)

Family
Caprimulgidae (Nightjars)

Size
22 cm

First Described (Guide)
Heuglin, 1869

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry grassland, temperate grassland, subtropical and tropical dry shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,800 m.

Range (Guide)

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

Vagrant to Burundi, Djibouti, Gabon.

Southern Mauritania and northern Senegal east to Ethiopia, north-western Somalia and north-western Kenya, and south-western Saudi Arabia southern into Yemen. Winters from Senegal and Liberia to south-western Sudan and possibly south-western Ethiopia, and south to Tanzania.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (4)...)

Plain Nightjar (Caprimulgus inornatus) [XC170217]
by David Darrell-Lambert from Pendjari Lodge, Pendjari National Park, Tangui\u00e9ta, Atakora, Benin (alarm call, wing clap)

Plain Nightjar (Caprimulgus inornatus) [XC746373]
by David Darrell-Lambert from Al Arida, Jazan, Saudi Arabia (song)

Subspecies
Possibly forms superspecies with Star-spotted Nightjar (Caprimulgus stellatus). Birds from south-western Ethiopia formerly separated as subspecies ludovicianus, which was sometimes considered a separate species. Birds of Niger formerly separated as subspecies vinaceabrunneus.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Plain Nightjar (Caprimulgus inornatus) - 10 files

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