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

Engoulevent à queue en ciseaux
♂ adult plum. breeding
Engoulevent à queue en ciseaux
♀ adult

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,
  • bacurau-tesoura,
  • Scherenschwanz-Nachtschwalbe,
  • ollósfarkú lappantyú,
  • Spiesstaartnachtzwaluw,
  • Succiacapre codaforbice,
  • saxstjärtsnattskärra,
  • Saksenattravn,
  • lelek šípochvostý,
  • lelek kopistoocasý,
  • Sakshale,
  • saksipyrstökehrääjä,
  • enganyapastors cua de tisora,
  • lelkowiec długosterny,
  • Бразильский острохвостый козодой,
  • ハサミヨタカ,
  • 剪尾夜鹰,
  • 剪尾夜鷹,

Voice song and cries

Engoulevent à queue en ciseaux
♂ adult

Habitat

Engoulevent à queue en ciseaux
adult

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

Sources of information

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