COMMON NIGHTHAWK Chordeiles minor
Familiar to North American birders, the cryptically plumaged Common Nighthawk is a summer visitor to Paraguay, though it does not breed here. Nighthawks can be distinguished from Nightjars by their more aerial behaviour. They hunt on the wing like swifts, they do not fly up from the ground and grab insects as do the nightjars. Furthermore Nighthawks tend to roost in trees (not on the ground), and when they perch in trees they sit lengthways along a branch - nightjars habitually sit crossways like most other birds.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE1750PH) Roosting adult male, Estancia Cardúz, Departamento San Pedro (Hemme Batjes November 2005).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE1751PH) Roosting adult, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2008).
VIDEO - (FPAVE1752VI) Same individual as (FPAVE1751PH) (Paul Smith March 2008).
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