Grey nightjar
| Grey nightjar | |
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| in Eaglenest, Arunachal Pradesh, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Caprimulgiformes |
| Family: | Caprimulgidae |
| Genus: | Caprimulgus |
| Species: | C. jotaka
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| Binomial name | |
| Caprimulgus jotaka | |
The grey nightjar (Caprimulgus jotaka; also "gray" in some non-local literature) is a species of nightjar found in East Asia, breeding from southeastern Russia south through China, the Korean Peninsula and Japan to northern Indochina and westward along the Himalaya.[2] It is largely migratory, wintering in Indochina south to Java in Indonesia, but is resident in warmer areas in the south of its breeding range.[2] It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the jungle nightjar (C. indicus), its South Asian relative.[3][4] The grey nightjar breeds and forages in early successional habitats surrounded by forests; its populations have declined since the 1970s in Japan.[5] Like all nightjars, it is crepuscular to nocturnal, feeding on flying insects, including moths, beetles, flying ants, grasshoppers, and others.[3]
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Grey Nightjar in Khonoma, Nagaland, India -
Grey nightjar from the collections of World Museum.
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References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Caprimulgus jotaka". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22725702A94899999. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22725702A94899999.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ a b del Hoyo, Josep (2020). All the birds of the world. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. p. 201. ISBN 978-84-16728-37-4.
- ^ a b Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Sargatal, J. (eds). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds. Lynx Editions. pp. 359–360 ISBN 84-87334-25-3
- ^ Rasmussen, PC & JC Anderton 2005. Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide. Smithsonian Institution & Lynx Edicions.
- ^ Kawamura, Kazuhiro; Yamaura, Yuichi; Nakamura, Futoshi (2023-07-04). "Early successional habitats created through plantation harvesting benefit the Gray Nightjar ( Caprimulgus jotaka ): An 8-year survey in central Hokkaido, northern Japan". Journal of Forest Research. 28 (4): 289–296. doi:10.1080/13416979.2023.2195038. hdl:2115/91439. ISSN 1341-6979.
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