Ladder-tailed nightjar

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Ladder-tailed nightjar
Top, female; bottom, male

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Caprimulgiformes
Family: Caprimulgidae
Genus: Hydropsalis
Species:
H. climacocerca
Binomial name
Hydropsalis climacocerca
(Tschudi, 1844)

The ladder-tailed nightjar (Hydropsalis climacocerca) is a species of

Caprimulgidae, the nightjars. It is one of two species in the genus, Hydropsalis
.

It is found in the Amazon Basin of

Guianas, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and also Amazonian Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia; it is also in Venezuela
. Its natural
subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, rivers, and freshwater lakes
.

This bird is highly

predators farther distances from the nest
, young, or eggs.

As a species that hunts airborne

at night
, its large eyes are noteworthy; a large wide mouth also goes along with this feeding strategy.

Distribution

Amazon Basin, Guianas and upper Orinoco River Basin

Incubating eggs, Rio São Manuel, South Amazon, Brazil

The ladder-tailed nightjar is found in all regions of the

Ilha de Marajo). At this same outlet, in the region of the Xingu River
confluence, the range extends southward and is in the lower two-thirds of the drainage of this north-flowing river.

In the west the species range is adjacent to the

Orinoco River
drainage, the area of the eastern Orinoco River Basin and uplands bordering western Guyana.

In the very headwaters of the southern Amazon Basin, the upstream half of the river drainages, both in the southeast and southwest, the range overlaps with its sister Hydropsalis species, the scissor-tailed nightjar, which ranges into southeast Brazil through the caatinga, cerrado, and pantanal south into Argentina. The two species cover all of South America east of the Andes cordillera from central Argentina to the Caribbean coast; the exception is a small region centered southeast of the Amazon basin in the vicinity of Maranhão, Brazil.

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22690029A93258281.en
    . Retrieved 12 November 2021.

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