Puerto Rican Nightjar
Antrostomus noctitherus(Wetmore, A, 1919)
English (US) Puerto Rican Nightjar
The Puerto Rican Nightjar (Antrostomus noctitherus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Caprimulgidae (Nightjars and Nighthawks) in the order Caprimulgiformes.
Range: dry lowland forest of southwestern Puerto RicoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Antrostomus noctitherus
- Order
- Caprimulgiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Puerto Rican Nightjar
- Described by
- (Wetmore, A, 1919)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Setochalcis noctitherus
- Described by
- (Wetmore, A, 1919)
- Type locality
- Puerto Rico, type from Bayam6n.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 32 p.235
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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