- Buff-collared Nightjar
Taxobox
name = Buff-collared Nightjar
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo =Caprimulgiformes
familia = Caprimulgidae
genus = "Caprimulgus "
species = "C. ridgwayi"
binomial = "Caprimulgus ridgwayi"
binomial_authority = (Nelson,1897 The Buff-collared Nightjar, "Caprimulgus ridgwayi", is a small sized
nightjar .The adults are dark with brown, grey, black and white patterning on the upperparts and breast. The tail is dark brown, with darker finely barred markings throughout. The male has large white outer tail tips on the 3 outermost tail feathers. The female has buffy tail tips. The most distinguishing characteristic to determine its identity from its closest relative the
Whip-poor-will is from where the bird gets its name. It shows a prominent buff-colored collar around its neck and nape. Its song is also very different. It sounds like an accelerating cuk, cuk, cuk, cuk, cuk, cukacheea.Their breeding habitat is open country of
Mexico andCentral America to centralNicaragua . The northern limit of its range reaches just over the Mexican border to southeasternmostArizona and southwesternmostNew Mexico –(theMadrean sky islands in the easternSonoran Desert mountain region), where they are only breedingresident bird s. The nightjar's two eggs are laid directly on bare ground near rocks or scrubby vegetation—there is no nest. The adult may feign injury to distract an intruder from the eggs or young birds.They catch flying insects on the wing, making forays to catch its pray from the ground or a perch from a bush, tree or large rock. It is mainly active at night, but can also be awake at dawn or dusk. It usually rests on the ground during the day.
Buff-collared nightjar is named for
Robert Ridgway , pioneering Americanornithologist of the 1800s.References
* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
External links
* [http://www.siti.com.mx/musave.dir/gif.dir/167.gifBuff-collared Nightjar photo] ; [http://www.siti.com.mx/musave.dir/htm.dir/167.htm Article] siti.com
* [http://conabioweb.conabio.gob.mx/bancoimagenes/imagenes/thumbs/thumbs10251.jpgBuff-collared Nightjar photo] ; [http://conabioweb.conabio.gob.mx/bancoimagenes/doctos/001_thumbs225-1.htm Article] -(Caprimulgus ridgwayi)
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/species_image.php?species=Caprimulgus+ridgwayi Buff-collared Nightjar photo-High Res] ; [http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura/servlet/InfoNatura?sourceTemplate=Ltabular_report.wmt&loadTemplate=Ldetail_report.wmt&selectedReport=&summaryView=Ltabular_report.wmt&elKey=102526&paging=home&save=true&startIndex=1&nextStartIndex=1&reset=false&offPageSelectedElKey=102526&offPageSelectedElType=species&offPageYesNo=true&selectedIndexes=102526#rangemap RangeMaps & synopsis] InfoNatura NatureServe
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=buff-collared+nightjar&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Buff-collared Nightjar photo gallery] VIREO [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/species_image.php?species=Caprimulgus+ridgwayi Photo-High Res]
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