World Species : Antrostomus cubanensis (Greater Antillean Nightjar)

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Antrostomus cubanensis (Greater Antillean Nightjar)

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Synonyms: Caprimulgus cubanensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Cuban nightjar (Antrostomus cubanensis), is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family. It is commonly found in Cuba. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. This species was considered to be conspecific with Hispaniolan nightjar.

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Infraspecies

Antrostomus cubanensis cubanensis
Antrostomus cubanensis ekmani
Antrostomus cubanensis insulaepinorum

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 10.6635

EDGE Score: 2.45647

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	64 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	100 %
Forages - Aerial ^[2]	20 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[2]	40 %
Forages - Understory ^[2]	40 %

Clutch Size ^[3]	1
Nocturnal ^[2]	Yes

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Cuban cactus scrub	Cuba	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Cuban dry forests	Cuba	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Cuban moist forests	Cuba	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cuban pine forests	Cuba	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Cuban wetlands	Cuba	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Enriquillo wetlands	Haiti, Dominican Republic	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Hispaniolan dry forests	Haiti, Dominican Republic	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Hispaniolan moist forests	Haiti, Dominican Republic	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Hispaniolan pine forests	Haiti, Dominican Republic	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Buenavista Wetland Reserve		778949	Cuba
Ciénaga de Zapata National Park		1606900	Cuba
Tuabaquey - Limones Ecological Reserve	II	4859	Cuba

Important Bird Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Caribbean Islands	Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S.	Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Garrido, OH 1983. A new subspecies of Caprimulgus cubanensis (Aves: Caprimulgidae) from the isle of Pines, Cuba. Auk 100: 988-991
♦ ²Hamish 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
♦ ³Jetz 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

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