Jamaican Pauraque

Jamaican Pauraque

Taxobox
name = Jamaican Pauraque



image_caption = Jamaica Least Pauraque.
status = CR
status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Caprimulgiformes
familia = Caprimulgidae
genus = "Siphonorhis"
species = "S. americana"
binomial = "Siphonorhis americana"
binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)

The Jamaican Pauraque, Jamaican Poorwill, or Jamaican Least-pauraqué ("Siphonorhis americana" or "americanus") is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family.It is endemic to Jamaica.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.It is critically endangered or quite possibly even already extinct due to introduced predators.

References

* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/20269/all Siphonorhis americana] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.] Downloaded on 24 July 2007.

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=2373&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet.]


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