Spotted Nightjar vs Lyre-tailed Nightjar

Eurostopodus argus 비교 대상 Uropsalis lyra

Side-by-Side Comparison

속성 Spotted Nightjar Lyre-tailed Nightjar
학명 Eurostopodus argus Uropsalis lyra
Caprimulgiformes Caprimulgiformes
Caprimulgidae Caprimulgidae
보전 상태 Least Concern Least Concern
체장
날개 폭 42.7 cm (16.8 in) 35.2 cm (13.9 in)
체중 102.5 g (3.62 oz) 71.25 g (2.51 oz)
식성 Aerial insectivore; hawks large moths, beetles, and flying insects at dusk and dawn over Australian … Hawks moths and flying insects at night over Andean montane forest; male's enormously long tail …
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Habitat Comparison

공유 서식지

Spotted Nightjar only

Lyre-tailed Nightjar only

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Song & Call Comparison

Spotted Nightjar

노래

Loud churring 'good-lord-deliver-us' repeated at dusk; melodic bubbling quality; also emits hollow 'cow-cow-cow' series and soft frog-like croaking

Lyre-tailed Nightjar

노래

Clear, melodic whistled phrase; 'wheeeoo' delivered from Andean ridges; males give repeated territorial whistle; alarm a sharp 'chek'; female call quieter and thinner

Geographic Range & Migration

Spotted Nightjar

Resident and partial migrant of open woodland, grassland, and scrub across mainland Australia and migrating to New Guinea and Indonesia in winter.

Lyre-tailed Nightjar

Resident of Andean cloud forest and forest edge in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, at 1,000–2,500 m.

보전 상태

Least Concern

Spotted Nightjar

Least Concern

Lyre-tailed Nightjar

How to Tell Them Apart

Spotted Nightjar

깃털

Cryptically mottled grey-brown, rufous, and black with intricate vermiculations; distinctive large white spots on wing coverts; white throat patch; no white in wings or tail. Sexes similar with slight pattern …

Lyre-tailed Nightjar

깃털

Male dark brown with buff mottling; outer tail feathers massively elongated and curved outward forming lyre shape up to 60 cm; white throat. Female plain brown and buff mottled without …

About These Birds

Spotted Nightjar

호주 개방 삼림, 스피니펙스 초원, 반건조 덤불에 서식하는 중형 쏙독새(~103g). 눈점박이야행소쏙독새라고도 불린다. 관심필요종.

Lyre-tailed Nightjar

A medium Caprimulgidae nightjar (~71 g) of Andean cloud forests from Venezuela to Bolivia. Males bear enormously elongated outer tail feathers extending over three times the body length in a lyrate shape; females lack this ornamentation. Inhabits moist montane forest edges. Feeds on insects at night. Least Concern.

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