World Species : Caprimulgus longipennis (Standard-winged Nightjar)

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Caprimulgus longipennis (Standard-winged Nightjar)

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Synonyms: Macrodipteryx longipennis

Wikipedia Abstract

The standard-winged nightjar (Caprimulgus longipennis) is a bird in the nightjar family.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 9.69632

EDGE Score: 2.3699

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	47 grams
Birth Weight ^[1]	5.1 grams

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

Clutch Size ^[3]	1
Migration ^[4]	Intracontinental
Nocturnal ^[2]	Yes

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Cameroonian Highlands forests	Cameroon, Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cross-Niger transition forests	Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests	Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
East Saharan montane xeric woodlands	Chad, Sudan	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
East Sudanian savanna	Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Eastern Guinean forests	Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Togo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guinean forest-savanna mosaic	Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Guinean montane forests	Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Mandara Plateau mosaic	Cameroon, Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands	Kenya	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests	Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Niger Delta swamp forests	Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Nigerian lowland forests	Nigeria, Benin	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northeastern Congolian lowland forests	Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Republic of the Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets	Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Central African Republic, Cameroon	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Northwestern Congolian lowland forests	Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Saharan flooded grasslands	Sudan	Afrotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Sahelian Acacia savanna	Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets	Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic	Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
West Sudanian savanna	Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Western Guinean lowland forests	Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
Eastern Afromontane	Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe	No
Guinean Forests of West Africa	Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo	No
Horn of Africa	Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen	No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 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
♦ ⁴Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org

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