Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Caprimulgiformes > Caprimulgidae > Caprimulgus > Caprimulgus macrurus

Caprimulgus macrurus (Large-tailed Nightjar)

Wikipedia Abstract

The large-tailed nightjar (Caprimulgus macrurus) is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family.It is found in Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
View Wikipedia Record: Caprimulgus macrurus

Infraspecies

Caprimulgus macrurus albonotatus
Caprimulgus macrurus bimaculatus
Caprimulgus macrurus johnsoni
Caprimulgus macrurus macrurus
Caprimulgus macrurus salvadorii
Caprimulgus macrurus schlegelii

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
29
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.3759
EDGE Score: 2.66555
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  66 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  10 %
Forages - Understory [2]  50 %
Forages - Ground [2]  40 %
Clutch Size [4]  1
Incubation [3]  17 days
Nocturnal [2]  Yes

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Eumegacetes singhi[5]
Subulura suctoria[5]

Range Map

External References

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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
♦ 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
♦ 3Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve
♦ 4Jetz 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
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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
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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