Long-tailed Nightjar (Caprimulgus climacurus) [XC115374]
by Martin St-Michel from Lemouroudugou lake, Cascades, Burkina Faso (song)
Long-tailed Nightjar (Caprimulgus climacurus) [XC156703]
by Bram Piot from Mole National Park, Ghana, Ghana (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.