Montane Nightjar (Caprimulgus poliocephalus)
About the Montane Nightjar
The montane nightjar (Caprimulgus poliocephalus), mountain nightjar or Abyssinian nightjar, is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. It is native to upland regions of Central and Eastern Africa where it is a locally common species. The Montane nightjar was originally described by the German naturalist Eduard Rüppell in 1840. He used the current binomial name Caprimulgus poliocephalus. There are four subspecies: C. p. poliocephalus Rüppell, 1840 – Ethiopia to north Tanzania, also southwest Saudi Arabia C. p. ruwenzorii Ogilvie-Grant, 1909 – southwest Uganda, east Democratic Republic of the Congo C. p. guttifer Grote, 1921 – Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia C. p. koesteri Neumann, 1931 – central Angola
A real field recording of the Montane Nightjar. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda · xeno-canto lists 67 recordings for this species in total.
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