Long-trained Nightjar (Hydropsalis forcipata) | Photos and ID

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Long-trained Nightjar (Hydropsalis forcipata), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Tom Field, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Long-trained Nightjar (Hydropsalis forcipata), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Tristan Jobin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Long-trained Nightjar (Hydropsalis forcipata), photo 4 — Photo: (c) vinicius_s_domingues, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Long-trained Nightjar (Hydropsalis forcipata), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Nathan Ruser, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Long-trained Nightjar (Hydropsalis forcipata), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Bruno Luka de Souza Bambirra Silveira, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Long-trained Nightjar (Hydropsalis forcipata), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Bruno Luka de Souza Bambirra Silveira, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The male long-trained nightjar has extremely long outer tail feathers from which the species gets its name. It is 28 to 31 cm (11 to 12 in) long excluding those feathers, which are 48 to 68 cm (19 to 27 in) long. Both sex's upperparts are brown with spots and bars of grayish brown, tawny, buff, and cinnamon. The wings are similarly colored, with none of the white that others in family Caprimulgidae have. They have a broad tawny or tawny buff collar on the hindneck and a faint tawny patch on the throat. Voice: Both sexes of long-trained nightjar make "a repetitive, high-pitched 'tsip, tsip, tsip, tsip' call."

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When to see the Long-trained Nightjar

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Long-trained Nightjar

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 22 countries with regular records, and 3 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Netherlands, Chile, Honduras.

About the Long-trained Nightjar

The long-trained nightjar is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. It is found in Argentina and Brazil.

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Easily confused with

White-tailed NightjarHydropsalis cayennensisThe white-tailed nightjar is 20 to 22.5 cm (7.9 to 8.9 in) long.

Ladder-tailed NightjarHydropsalis climacocercaThe ladder-tailed nightjar is a species of bird in the nightjar family Caprimulgidae.

Scissor-tailed NightjarHydropsalis torquataThe most distinctive feature of the scissor-tailed nightjar is the male's elongated outer tail feathers, which are almost twice as long as its body.

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