Timor Nightjar

When to see the Timor Nightjar

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

Where to see the Timor Nightjar

The map shades 147 countries with regular records, and 27 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 United States, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Honduras, Faroe Islands, Luxembourg, Libya, Colombia, CX, Guernsey, Equatorial Guinea, Isle of Man, Syria, Trinidad & Tobago, Chile, Guatemala, Jersey, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guyana, St. Lucia, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador.

About the Timor Nightjar

The Timor nightjar is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. It is found in Southeast Asia on the islands of Timor, Rote and Wetar in the Lesser Sunda Islands.

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Easily confused with

Prigogine's NightjarCaprimulgus prigogineiPrigogine's nightjar or the Itombwe nightjar, is a bird species of tropical central Africa. Nechisar NightjarCaprimulgus solalaThe Nechisar nightjar is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. Chirruping NightjarCaprimulgus griseatusThe chirruping nightjar or kayumanggi nightjar is a species of nightjar found in the Philippines.