Species: Chordeiles minor

Common Nighthawk
Species
    Chordeiles minor
    Kingdom
    Animalia
    Phylum
    Craniata
    Class

    Aves

    Order

    Caprimulgiformes

    Family

    Caprimulgidae

    Genus

    Chordeiles

    Classification
    Other Global Common Names
    Bacurau-Americano - Chotacabras Zumbón, Añapero Migratorio - engoulevent d'Amérique
    Informal Taxonomy
    Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Other Birds
    Formal Taxonomy
    Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Caprimulgiformes - Caprimulgidae - Chordeiles - are treated as conspecific by some authors (AOU 1983; see Stevenson et al. 1983 for differences) and constitute a superspecies (AOU 1998). See Dickerman (1990) for information on plumage variation of juveniles in North America (some discussion of subspecies).
    Short General Description
    A crepuscular bird, a nightjar (nighthawk).
    Migration
    false - false - true - Migrates through Costa Rica September-early November and March-April (Stiles and Skutch 1989). In Colombia, uncommon to fairly common fall migrant late August-late November, uncommon to rare in spring migration March-April (Hilty and Brown 1986).
    Non-migrant
    false
    Locally Migrant
    false
    Food Comments
    Feeds on flying insects (e.g., mosquitoes, moths, beetles, flies, caddisflies). Forages at night or during the day. Catches insects high in the air or close to the ground. May forage on insects around artificial lights. Young are fed insects by regurgitation.
    Reproduction Comments
    Clutch size 2. Incubation by female, about 19 days. Nestlings semi-precocial, tended by both parents, independent in about 30 days (Harrison 1978).
    Ecology Comments
    Interspecifically territorial toward the Antillean nighthawk in the Florida Keys (Ehrlich et al. 1992).
    Length
    24
    Weight
    64
    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G5
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    2009-03-17
    Global Status Last Changed
    1996-12-02
    Conservation Status Map
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    Global Range
    H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - Nesting range extends from southern Yukon, southern Mackenzie, northern Saskatchewan, northern Manitoba, northern Ontario, central Quebec, southern Labrador, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia south virtually throughout North America to California, south-central Nevada, Arizona, southern Texas, Gulf Coast, and southern Florida in the United States; also Middle America from Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico, south through central Guatemala to western Honduras, and along Atlantic slope locally from Tamaulipas through southern Veracruz, and in Belize, eastern Honduras, northern Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, and possibly in southeastern Colombia in South America (Poulin et al. 1996).<br><br>During the northern winter the range includes South America south to northern Argentina (Poulin et al. 1996). <br><br>In migration this species occurs throughout Middle America and the West Indies.
    Global Range Code
    H
    Global Range Description
    >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)
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