Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Caprimulgiformes > Caprimulgidae > Caprimulgus > Caprimulgus fraenatusCaprimulgus fraenatus (Sombre Nightjar)The sombre nightjar (Caprimulgus fraenatus) is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 6.93684 EDGE Score: 2.07152 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 59 grams | | Female Weight [1] | 55 grams | | Male Weight [1] | 64 grams | | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 16.4 % |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 60 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 10 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 1 | | Nocturnal [2] | Yes |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Albertine Rift montane forests |
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi,Tanzania |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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East African montane forests |
Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Ethiopian montane forests |
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands |
Ethiopia, Eritrea |
Afrotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands |
Kenya |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets |
Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Serengeti volcanic grasslands |
Tanzania |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets |
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets |
Tanzania, Kenya |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Southern Rift montane forest-grassland mosaic |
Malawi, Tanzania |
Afrotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Amboseli National Park |
Kenya |
A3 |
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Arusha National Park |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Asmara escarpment |
Eritrea |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Awash National Park |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Bandingilo |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Bogol Manyo: Dolo |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Boorama plains |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Dida Galgalu desert |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kianyaga valleys |
Kenya |
A1, A2 |
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Lake Chew Bahir |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Lake Elmenteita |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A4i, A4iii |
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Lake Magadi |
Kenya |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Lake Nakuru National Park |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A4i, A4iii |
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Lake Natron and Engaruka basin |
Tanzania |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Machakos valleys |
Kenya |
A1, A2 |
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Masai Mara |
Kenya |
A1, A2 |
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Meru National Park |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Elgon |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Nairobi National Park |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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Nechisar National Park |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Nyumba ya Mungu reservoir |
Tanzania |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Omo National Park |
Ethiopia |
A3 |
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Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves |
Kenya |
A3 |
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Serengeti National Park |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Shaba National Reserve |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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South Nguruman |
Kenya |
A1, A2 |
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Tsavo East National Park |
Kenya |
A1, A3 |
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Tsavo West National Park |
Kenya |
A1, A3 |
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| Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Eastern Afromontane |
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe |
No |
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Horn of Africa |
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen |
No |
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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 ♦ 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 |
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
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