Known from the discs' own bird lists
Common Nighthawk
chordeiles minor
Caprimulgidae,Chordeilinae
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The detailed account of this bird below comes from Disc 1 · 2011. The other discs list the bird but carry no account of it, and none is invented here.
From the original Disc 1 · 2011 revision
Detailed account — Disc 1 · 2011
This detailed account first appears in the 2011 Disc 1 revision; the earlier releases have no account for this bird.
Description Disc 1 · 2011
22-25 cm. A nearctic breeder, wintering in South America. The wing tips extend well beyond the tail; crown dark brown spotted buff; upperparts brown spotted gray-white, buff and cinnamon; no collar around the hindneck; lesser wing coverts dark brown spotted grayish-white, cinnamon or buff; the rest of the wing coverts brown, speckled and spotted gray-white, white or buff; grayish-white supercilium; throat patch big, white in the male, buff in the female; underparts brown, barred grayish-white, becoming grayish-white with a buff tinge and brown bars on belly and flanks; in flight fork tailed, the male with a broad white band in the middle of the forewing and a broad white subterminal band across all but the central two rectrices.
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The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 1 · 2011
The account, continued
Voice Disc 1 · 2011
Call in North America a nasal "peeent" rarely uttered in the winter quarters (119).
Behavior Disc 1 · 2011
Crepuscular and occasionally diurnal. Roosts on the ground, roofs and isolated trees. Forages frequently in groups over open ground, water or forest in fast, erratic flight interspersed with short glides relatively high up to 175 meters. Feeds from late afternoon to dusk and early dawn into morning.
Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011
Uncommon in savannah, open grasslands with scattered trees, golf courses, ridges, open forest, scrub, around settlements.
Distribution Disc 1 · 2011
Throughout. In Estado São Paulo recorded from Santa Lucia, Matao, Avare, Broa, Fazenda Paraiso, Guaranta, Iepe, Magda, Paulo de Faria, Araba (119).
The Disc 2 · 2001 contains no detailed account for this bird (its 2011 account is shown above). None is invented here.
The Disc 3 · 2006 contains no detailed account for this bird (its 2011 account is shown above). None is invented here.
Vocalizations
Each disc's own recording entries are shown under that disc's label. A player appears only where the recording's file survives on a preserved disc.
Disc 1 · 2011
Brookline, MA, USA. August 2002. Disc 1 · 2011
Which discs list this bird
- Disc 2 · 2001 — in this disc's bird list
- Disc 3 · 2006 — in this disc's bird list
- Disc 1 · 2011 — in this disc's bird list
How that was established
- Disc 2 · 2001
aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1- Disc 3 · 2006
aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1- Disc 1 · 2011
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The disc's own record fields that place the bird on its list: a non-empty entry in the species table, and the byte that marks it as selected on a local checklist.
Historical checklist participation
Disc 2 · 2001
Selected on local checklists: ITSB.CKD; LESB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBRAZIL.CKD; SEBZ_D1.CKD
Disc 3 · 2006
Selected on local checklists: ITSB.CKD; LESB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd
Disc 1 · 2011
Selected on local checklists: ITSB.CKD; LESB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd