Scissor-tailed Nightjar

Hydropsalis torquata - Engoulevent à queue en ciseaux

Systematics

Order
:
Caprimulgiformes
Family
:
Caprimulgidés
Genus
:
Hydropsalis
Species
:
torquata

Descriptor

Gmelin, JF, 1789

Biometrics

Size
: 30 cm
Wingspan
: -
Weight
: 47 à 57 g

Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Scissor-tailed Nightjar (Hydropsalis torquata) is a species of bird in the Caprimulgidae family.

Subspecific information 2 subspecies

Hydropsalis torquata torquata (s Suriname, Brazil and e Peru)
Hydropsalis torquata furcifer (s Peru to s Brazil and c Argentina)

Foreign names

Engoulevent à queue en ciseaux,
Chotacabras tijereta,
noitibó-tesoura,
Scherenschwanz-Nachtschwalbe,
ollósfarkú lappantyú,
Spiesstaartnachtzwaluw,
Succiacapre codaforbice,
saxnattskärra,
Saksenattravn,
lelek šípochvostý,
lelek nůžkoocasý,
Sakshale,
saksipyrstökehrääjä,
enganyapastors cua de tisora,
lelkowiec długosterny,
Острохвостый козодой,
ハサミヨタカ,
剪尾夜鹰,
剪尾夜鷹,

Voice song and call

play
pause

Habitat

Savanna : Dry ; Grassland : Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status

Extinct

Threatened

Least
concern

Extinc
in the Wild

Near
threatened

Not
evaluated

EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Illustration

Access to all images

Sources of information

Nightjars, Cleere Nigel
Vol. 5 - Handbook of the Birds of the World, Josep del Hoyo-Andrew Elliott-Jordi sargatal
Avibase, Lepage Denis
Wikipédia, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Birds of Northern South America, an identification guide, Robin Restall, Clemencia Rodner, Miguel Lentino
IOC World Bird List (v14.2), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2024-04-18.

Other sources of interest