Rusty nightjar

Rusty nightjar
	Rusty Nightjar ( Antrostomus rufus )
Systematics
Order :	Swallow-like (Caprimulgiformes)
Family :	Nightjar (Caprimulgidae)
Subfamily :	Caprimulginae
Genre :	Antrostomus ( Antrostomus )
Type :	Rusty nightjar
Scientific name
	Antrostomus rufus
	( Boddaert , 1783)

The nightjar ( Antrostomus rufus , syn .: Caprimulgus rufus ) is a species of bird from the family of the night swallow (Caprimulgidae).

It occurs in Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Costa Rica , Ecuador , French Guiana , Guyana , Colombia , Panama , Paraguay , Peru , St. Lucia , Suriname , Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela .

Their distribution area includes subtropical or tropical dry forest , moist lowland forest, forest edges and thickets up to 1000 m.

description

The night swallow is 25–30 cm tall, the male weighs around 88 g, the female between 87 and 98 g. The top is marbled brown with broad black-brown stripes. It has a light brown neck band and a wide white stripe on the throat. Only in the male is white in the tail on the outside of the three outer control feathers , there is no white on the wings of the hand . The parting is red-brown. The Rostnachtschwalbe is similar to the black-throated nightjar ( Antrostomus vociferus ) and the Carolinan nightjar ( Antrostomus carolinensis ).

voice

The male's call is described as a loud “chuk, wee, wee, weeo”, called out at night from a raised hide such as a branch or a rock

Geographic variation

The following subspecies are recognized:

A. r. minimus ( Griscom & Greenway , 1937) - Ruddy Nightjar - southern Costa Rica to northern Colombia, Venezuela and northwest Trinidad (including Bocas Islands ).
A. r. Otiosus Bangs , 1911 - St Lucia Nightjar - Northeast St Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles .
A. r. rufus ( Boddaert , 1783) - Rufous Nightjar , nominate form - South of Venezuela, east to Guiana and Brazil.
A. r. rutilus Burmeister , 1856 - southern Brazil, eastern Bolivia, Paraguay and northeast Argentina.

A. r. saltuarius ( Olrog , 1979) from northwest Argentina and possibly southeast Bolivia is used as a synonym for A. r. rutilus considered.

Way of life

The food consists of insects .

The breeding season is between January and May in Panama, in June in St Lucia, between February and May in Trinidad, between April and May in Colombia.

Hazardous situation

The rust nightjar is not considered endangered ( least concern ).

literature

David Thomas Holyoak, Martin Woodcock: Nightjars and their Allies: The Caprimulgiformes (Bird Families of the World) . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-854987-1 .

Web links

Commons : Rostnachtschwalbe ( Antrostomus rufus ) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Antrostomus rufus inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019.1. Listed by: BirdLife International, 2016. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
BirdLife International: Species Factsheet - Rufous Nightjar ( Antrostomus rufus ) . Retrieved June 6, 2019.
Videos, photos and sound recordings of Rufous Nightjar (Antrostomus rufus) in the Internet Bird Collection
Rust nightjar ( Antrostomus rufus ) at Avibase; accessed on June 6, 2019.
Antrostomus rufus in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved June 6, 2019.
xeno-canto: sound recordings - rust night swallow ( Antrostomus rufus )
Rufous Nightjar (Antrostomus rufus) in the Encyclopedia of Life . Retrieved June 6, 2019.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Handbook of the Birds of the World
↑ ^a ^b ^c R. Garrigues, R. Dean: The Birds of Costa Rica. Ithaca: 2007. ISBN 978-0-8014-7373-9
↑ GR Angehr, R. Dean: The Birds of Panama. Ithaca: 2010 ISBN 978-0-8014-7674-7
↑ IOC World Bird List frogmouths, oilbird, potoos, nightjars.
^ Ludlow Griscom, James Cowan Greenway: Critical notes on new Neotropical Birds . In: Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College . tape 81 , 1937, pp. 417-437 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
^ Outram Bangs: Descriptions of new American birds . In: Proceedings of The Biological Society of Washington . tape 24 , 1911, pp. 187-190 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
↑ Pieter Boddaert: Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton: avec les denominations de MM de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés . NA, Utrecht 1783 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
^ Hermann Burmeister: Systematic overview of the animals of Brazil: which were just collected or observed during a trip through the provinces of Rio de Janeiro and Minas . tape 2 . G. Reimer, Berlin 1854 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
^ Claës Christian Olrog: Notas ornitologicas. 11. Sobre la coleccion del Instituto Miguel Lillo . In: Acta Zoologica Lilloana . tape 33 , no. 2 , 1979, ISSN 0065-1729 , pp. 5-7 .
↑ David Thomas Holyoak et al. a.

[HBW-1] Handbook of the Birds of the World

[Garrigues-2] R. Garrigues, R. Dean: The Birds of Costa Rica. Ithaca: 2007. ISBN 978-0-8014-7373-9

[Angehr-3] GR Angehr, R. Dean: The Birds of Panama. Ithaca: 2010 ISBN 978-0-8014-7674-7

[4] IOC World Bird List frogmouths, oilbird, potoos, nightjars.

[Griscom-5] Ludlow Griscom, James Cowan Greenway: Critical notes on new Neotropical Birds . In: Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College . tape 81 , 1937, pp. 417-437 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

[Bangs-6] Outram Bangs: Descriptions of new American birds . In: Proceedings of The Biological Society of Washington . tape 24 , 1911, pp. 187-190 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

[Boddaert-7] Pieter Boddaert: Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton: avec les denominations de MM de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés . NA, Utrecht 1783 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

[Burmeister-8] Hermann Burmeister: Systematic overview of the animals of Brazil: which were just collected or observed during a trip through the provinces of Rio de Janeiro and Minas . tape 2 . G. Reimer, Berlin 1854 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

[Olrog-9] Claës Christian Olrog: Notas ornitologicas. 11. Sobre la coleccion del Instituto Miguel Lillo . In: Acta Zoologica Lilloana . tape 33 , no. 2 , 1979, ISSN 0065-1729 , pp. 5-7 .

[holyoak-10] David Thomas Holyoak et al. a.