World Species : Nyctipolus nigrescens (Blackish Nightjar)

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Nyctipolus nigrescens (Blackish Nightjar)

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Synonyms: Caprimulgus nigrescens; Hydropsalis nigrescens

Wikipedia Abstract

The blackish nightjar (Nyctipolus nigrescens) is a species of bird in the Caprimulgidae family. This relatively small dark nightjar is found in the Guianas and the Amazon. It is rare or even absent in the western part, but is among the commonest nightjars in the eastern Amazon and the Guianas.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 15.3175

EDGE Score: 2.79224

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	36 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	100 %
Forages - Aerial ^[2]	60 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[2]	20 %
Forages - Understory ^[2]	20 %

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

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Guianan Highlands moist forests	Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan moist forests	Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan savanna	Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Gurupa varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Iquitos varzea	Brazil, Peru, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Japurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests	Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Juruá-Purus moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Madeira-Tapajós moist forests	Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Monte Alegre varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Napo moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Negro-Branco moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Pantepuis	Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Purus varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Purus-Madeira moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Rio Negro campinarana	Brazil, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Solimões-Japurá moist forest	Brazil, Colombia, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southwest Amazon moist forests	Peru, Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Tapajós-Xingu moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Tocantins/Pindare moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests	Brazil, Guyana, Suriname	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ucayali moist forests	Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Willard, DE, Foster, MS, Barrowclough, GF, Dickerman, RW, Cannell, PF, Coats, SL, Cracraft, JL, & O'Neill, JP 1991. The birds of Cerro de la Neblina, Territorio Federal Amazonas, Venezuela. Fieldiana: Zoology, NS 65: 1-80
♦ 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

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