tropics. Caprimulgus species have relatively long bills and rictal bristles. Many have repetitive and often mechanical songs. The genus Caprimulgus was introduced...
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European nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus europaeus)
The European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus), common goatsucker, Eurasian nightjar or just nightjar, is a crepuscular and nocturnal bird in the nightjar...
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Eastern whip-poor-will (redirect from Caprimulgus vociferus)
Whip-poor-will Species Account - Cornell Lab of Ornithology Whip-poor-will - Caprimulgus vociferus Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine - USGS Patuxent...
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Chuck-will's-widow (redirect from Caprimulgus carolinensis)
placed it with all the other nightjars in the genus Caprimulgus and coined the binomial name Caprimulgus carolinensis. Gmelin based his description on those...
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Prigogine's nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus prigoginei)
Prigogine's nightjar (Caprimulgus prigoginei) or the Itombwe nightjar, is a bird species of tropical central Africa. It is known from only one specimen...
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Large-tailed nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus macrurus)
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Caprimulgus macrurus. Wikispecies has information related to Caprimulgus macrurus. at Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India...
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Standard-winged nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus longipennis)
The standard-winged nightjar (Caprimulgus longipennis) is a nocturnal bird in the nightjar family. It is a resident breeder in Africa from Senegal east...
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with all the nightjar like species in the genus Caprimulgus and coined the binomial name Caprimulgus grandis. The great potoo is now one of the seven...
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Red-necked nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus ruficollis)
Media related to Caprimulgus ruficollis at Wikimedia Commons Caprimulgus ruficollis in Field Guide: Birds of the World on Flickr "Caprimulgus ruficollis"....
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Fiery-necked nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus nigriscapularis)
pectoralis shelleyi - Caprimulgus pectoralis fervidus - Caprimulgus pectoralis crepusculans - Caprimulgus pectoralis pectoralis An adult...
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Erebus caprimulgus caprimulgus Erebus caprimulgus orion (Hampson, 1913) (Borneo) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Erebus caprimulgus. Yu, Dicky...
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Indian nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus asiaticus)
Nightjar (Caprimulgus asiaticus Latham)". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 64 (1): 110–111. Bharos,AMK (1992). "Feeding by Common Nightjar Caprimulgus asiaticus...
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Phalaenoptilus – common poorwill Genus Antrostomus (12 species) Genus Caprimulgus (40 species, including the European nightjar) Genus Setopagis (4 species)...
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Common nighthawk (redirect from Caprimulgus minor)
Chordeiles Species: C. minor Binomial name Chordeiles minor (J. R. Forster, 1771) Subspecies See text Synonyms Caprimulgus minor Chordeiles virginianus...
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Brown nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus binotatus)
Caprimulgiformes Family: Caprimulgidae Genus: Veles Bangs, 1918 Species: V. binotatus Binomial name Veles binotatus (Bonaparte, 1850) Synonyms Caprimulgus binotatus...
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Savanna nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus affinis)
The savanna nightjar (Caprimulgus affinis), also known as allied nightjar or Franklin's nightjar, is a species of nightjar found in South and Southeast...
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Red-necked nightjar Caprimulgus ruficollis Temminck, 1820 60 Jungle nightjar Caprimulgus indicus Latham, 1790 61 Grey nightjar Caprimulgus jotaka Temminck...
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Chirruping nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus griseatus)
The chirruping nightjar or kayumanggi nightjar (Caprimulgus griseatus) is a species of nightjar found in Philippines. Two subspecies are recognised: C...
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Collared nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus enarratus)
Genus: Gactornis Han, Robbins & Braun, M, 2010 Species: G. enarratus Binomial name Gactornis enarratus (Gray, GR, 1871) Synonyms Caprimulgus enarratus...
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Egyptian nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus aegyptius)
The Egyptian nightjar (Caprimulgus aegyptius) is a medium-small nightjar which occurs in south west Asia and north Africa and winters in tropical Africa...
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Jerdon's nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus atripennis)
"New evidence for sympatry in the sibling species Caprimulgus atripennis Jerdon and Caprimulgus macrurus Horsfield". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists'...
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Grey nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus jotaka)
The grey nightjar or gray nightjar (Caprimulgus jotaka) is a species of nightjar found in East Asia. It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the jungle...
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Jungle nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus indicus)
The jungle nightjar (Caprimulgus indicus) is a species of nightjar found in the Indian Subcontinent. It is found mainly on the edge of forests where it...
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Rufous-cheeked nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus rufigena)
The rufous-cheeked nightjar (Caprimulgus rufigena) is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. It is an intra-African migrant that breeds in...
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Mexican whip-poor-will (redirect from Caprimulgus arizonae)
Caprimulgiformes Family: Caprimulgidae Genus: Antrostomus Species: A. arizonae Binomial name Antrostomus arizonae Brewster, 1881 Synonyms Caprimulgus arizonae...
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Silky-tailed nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus sericocaudatus)
"Observations on the Breeding Biology of the Silky-Tailed Nightjar (Caprimulgus sericocaudatus mengeli)". The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 121 (3):...
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mistaken belief that they suck milk from goats (the Latin for goatsucker is Caprimulgus). In October 2018, the University of Alberta published research on the...
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Little nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus parvulus)
Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. The little nightjar was described as Caprimulgus parvulus but since the early 2010s has been placed in its current genus...
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Puerto Rican nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus noctitherus)
(Distribución Geográfica y Abundancia del Guabairo Pequeño de Puerto Rico (Caprimulgus noctitherus)". Journal of Field Ornithology. 64 (2): 223–238. JSTOR 4513803...
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Rufous nightjar (redirect from Caprimulgus rufus)
Caprimulgiformes Family: Caprimulgidae Genus: Antrostomus Species: A. rufus Binomial name Antrostomus rufus (Boddaert, 1783) Synonyms Caprimulgus rufus...
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