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Grey nightjar
Species of bird / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The grey nightjar or gray nightjar (Caprimulgus jotaka) is a species of nightjar found in East Asia. It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the jungle nightjar (C. indicus), its South Asian relative.[2] The grey nightjar, a nocturnal bird species, breeds and forages in early successional habitats surrounded bu forests; its populations have declined since the 1970s in Japan.[3]
- Grey nightjar from the collections of World Museum.
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Grey nightjar | |
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in Eaglenest, Arunachal Pradesh, India | |
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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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Caprimulgus jotaka | |
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