Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Caprimulgiformes > Caprimulgidae > Caprimulgus > Caprimulgus mahrattensisCaprimulgus mahrattensis (Sykes's Nightjar)Sykes's nightjar or the Sindh nightjar (Caprimulgus mahrattensis) is a nightjar species found in South Asia. The name commemorates Colonel William Henry Sykes, who served with the British military in India. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 10.8602 EDGE Score: 2.47319 |
Adult Weight [1] | 57 grams | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 100 % | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 10 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 60 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 20 % | Forages - Water Surface [2] | 10 % | | Clutch Size [3] | 2 | Incubation [3] | 17 days | Nocturnal [2] | Yes |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Bahu Kalat (Gandu) Protected Area |
Iran, Islamic Republic of |
A1, A3, A4i, B1i, B2, B3 |
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Hamun-i-Puzak |
Afghanistan |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Registan desert |
Afghanistan |
A1, A3 |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Mountains of Central Asia |
Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan |
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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 ♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. 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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