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Phalaenoptilus nuttallii (Common Poorwill)

Synonyms: Caprimulgus nuttallii; Phalaenoptilus nuttalli
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The common poorwill (Phalaenoptilus nuttallii) is a nocturnal bird of the family Caprimulgidae, the nightjars. It is found from British Columbia and southeastern Alberta, through the western United States to northern Mexico. The bird's habitat is dry, open areas with grasses or shrubs, and even stony desert slopes with very little vegetation.
View Wikipedia Record: Phalaenoptilus nuttallii

Infraspecies

Phalaenoptilus nuttallii adustus
Phalaenoptilus nuttallii californicus
Phalaenoptilus nuttallii centralis
Phalaenoptilus nuttallii dickeyi
Phalaenoptilus nuttallii hueyi
Phalaenoptilus nuttallii nuttallii

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
31
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 14.5953
EDGE Score: 2.74697
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  48 grams
Birth Weight [3]  5.5 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Desert scrub
Wintering Geography [2]  Southwestern Aridlands
Wintering Habitat [2]  Desert scrub
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [4]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  50 %
Forages - Understory [4]  20 %
Forages - Ground [4]  10 %
Clutch Size [6]  2
Clutches / Year [5]  2
Fledging [1]  21 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  1,400,000
Incubation [5]  20 days
Maximum Longevity [1]  3 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Female Maturity [5]  1 year
Male Maturity [5]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No

Predators

Athene cunicularia (Burrowing Owl)[7]
Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk)[7]
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[7]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0