Cayenne Nightjar

This is a small, brown variegated neotropical nightjar, 22.5 cm in length. It is known only from a single specimen, a male. Upperparts greyish-brown, broadly streaked blackish-brown on crown and nape. Narrow, indistinct tawny collar on hindneck. Wing-coverts greyish-brown heavily spotted buff; scapulars blackish-brown, broadly edged buff. Large white patch either side of lower throat. Underparts buff heavily barred brown.

The Cayenne Nightjar is classified as Data Deficient (DD), inadequate information to make a direct, or indirect, assessment of its risk of extinction.

English: Cayenne Nighthawk, Cayenne Nightjar, Stenopsis Nightjar, White tailed Nightjar, White-tailed Nightjar Spanish: Chotacabra Blanca, Chotacabras coliblanco, Chotacabras Ñañarca, Guabairo Coliblanco, Guardacaminos Rastrojero Spanish (Colombia): Guardacaminos Rastrojero Spanish (Costa Rica): Chotacabras coliblanco Estonian: valgesaba-öösorr Finnish: Valkopyrstökehrääjä French: Engoulevent cohé, Engoulevent coré Guadeloupean Creole French: Cohé, Coré Italian: Succiacapre codabianca, Succiacapre della Cayenna Japanese: ojiroyotaka Japanese: オジロヨタカ Latin: Caprimulgus cayennensis Dutch: Witstaartnachtzwaluw More

The Cayenne Nightjar Caprimulgus maculosus is currently only known from a single specimen taken on the Fleuve Mana, French Guiana. A possible female was caught at the Saül airstrip, French Guiana. This is a small, brown variegated neotropical nightjar, 22.5 cm in length. It is known only from a single specimen, a male. Upperparts greyish-brown, broadly streaked blackish-brown on crown and nape. Narrow, indistinct tawny collar on hindneck. Wing-coverts greyish-brown heavily spotted buff; scapulars blackish-brown, broadly edged buff. More

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Order : Caprimulgiformes
Family : Caprimulgidae
Genus : Caprimulgus
Species : maculosus
Authority : (Todd, 1920)