Little Nightjar (Setopagis parvula) | Photos, Calls and ID

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ForestScrapeSmall · 37 g

Little Nightjar (Setopagis parvula), photo 1 — Photo: Alessandher Piva · CC BY 4.0

Little Nightjar (Setopagis parvula), photo 2 — Photo: Mark · CC BY 4.0

Little Nightjar (Setopagis parvula), photo 3 — Photo: Thomaz de Carvalho Callado · CC BY 4.0

Little Nightjar (Setopagis parvula), photo 4 — Photo: Pablo H Capovilla · CC BY 4.0

Little Nightjar (Setopagis parvula), photo 5 — Photo: Pablo H Capovilla · CC BY 4.0

Little Nightjar (Setopagis parvula), photo 6 — Photo: Josh Noseworthy · CC BY 4.0

Little Nightjar (Setopagis parvula), photo 7 — Photo: Henrique Nogueira · CC BY 4.0

Little Nightjar (Setopagis parvula), photo 8 — Photo: Nicola Crockford · CC BY 4.0

Little Nightjar (Setopagis parvula), photo 9 — Photo: Thomaz de Carvalho Callado · CC BY 4.0

What the Little Nightjar sounds like

Sonogram of the Little Nightjar: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Belén y Diego · Uncertain · Capitán Solari, Sargento Cabral Department, Chaco Province, Argentina · CC0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The little nightjar is 19 to 21 cm (7.5 to 8.3 in) long and weighs 25 to 46.5 g (0.88 to 1.6 oz). The male is generally grayish brown with buff, brown, and blackish brown spots and streaks. The belly is buff with brown bars. Its hindneck has a broad but indistinct buff collar, the chin is buffy, and the throat is white. Its wing has a broad white band and the outer tail feathers have white tips. The female is similar but its throat is buff and it does not have white on the wing and tail. Voice: The little nightjar's song is "a rattling, clacking, flat, unbirdlike sound in pattern of hurr-ee quick quick quick quick quick quick".

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When to see the Little Nightjar

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Little Nightjar

Regular range

The map shades 6 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil Argentina Paraguay Bolivia Uruguay Peru

About the Little Nightjar

The little nightjar is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Todd's NightjarSetopagis heteruraTodd's nightjar is 17 to 21 cm (6.7 to 8.3 in) long. Cayenne NightjarSetopagis maculosaThe Cayenne nightjar is known in certainty only from the holotype, a male.

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