White-tailed Nightjar

White-tailed Nightjar

Taxobox
name = White-tailed Nightjar


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Caprimulgiformes
familia = Caprimulgidae
genus = "Caprimulgus"
species = "C. cayennensis"
binomial = "Caprimulgus cayennensis"
binomial_authority = Gmelin, 1789
synonyms =

The White-tailed Nightjar ("Caprimulgus cayennensis") is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family.It is found in Aruba, Barbados, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Martinique, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and heavily degraded former forest.

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* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/48659/all Caprimulgus cayennensis] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 24 July 2007.


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