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Photo by nick scarle
Bale Mountains National Park, February 2007

Alternative name: Montane Nightjar¹

Caprimulgus poliocephalus

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Africa: found from south-western Saudi Arabia to Ethiopia, north-eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic

[edit] Habitat

Forest edges

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Not to be confused with Montane Nightjar, Caprimulgus ruwenzorii.
2. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.

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