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Species
Near Threatenedvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Caprimulgus
- Mass
- 84
- Image
- Caprimulgus ruficollis.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Near Threatened
- taxon name
- Caprimulgus ruficollis
- Commons category
- Caprimulgus ruficollis
- Commons gallery
- Caprimulgus ruficollis
- taxon common name
- rallu pardu
- short name
- C. ruficollis
- taxon range
- Burkina Faso
- external data available at URL
- www.gbif.org/dataset/2c04922c-82dd-4718-ab22-c9772408de9c
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Encyclopedic overview
The red-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus ruficollis) is the largest of the nightjars occurring in Europe. It breeds in Iberia and North Africa, and winters in tropical West Africa.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Red-necked Nightjar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.