Known from the discs' own bird lists
Long-trained Nightjar
macropsalis creagra
Caprimulgidae,Caprimulginae
- 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
28-31 cm excluding the outer tail feathers of the male that can reach 48-68 cm. Upperparts brown spotted and barred gray brown, buff and cinnamon; broad tawny or tawny buff nuchal collar; lesser coverts brown barred or spotted tawny, the rest of the wing coverts brown, boldly spotted tawny and buff; a buffy line along the scapulars; faint throat patch tawny and buff becoming buff-barred brown on the belly and flanks; the male has greatly elongated outer tail feathers broadly edged white on inner webs; the female has a shorter, darker tail; iris brown.
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Campos de Jordao, meadows with scrub. Biome of Macropsalis creagra. Disc 2 · 2001
The account, continued
Behavior Disc 1 · 2011
Forages by flying close to trees and taking insects from leaves, also makes sallies from perches and from the ground.
Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011
Not uncommon locally, in open areas adjacent to forested country, second growth, forest edge. Sea level to 1800 meters.
Distribution Disc 1 · 2011
In Estado São Paulo occurs higher altitiude areas with open country close to forest, such as at Campos do Jordao or the road from Capao Bonito to Fazenda Intervales. Probably more common than thought.
Taxonomy notes Disc 1 · 2011
The species name "forcipata" has actually priority (119). Larger, darker and longer winged than hydropsalis torquata and the male has a much longer tail.
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 2 · 2001
Calls. Campos do Jordão, 10/99. Open country near forest. Disc 2 · 2001
Audio file found on Disc 1 (2011). The asserting release's own preserved disc did not carry it; the historical assertion above is unchanged.
Disc 1 · 2011
Calls. Campos do Jordão, 10/99. Open country near forest. Disc 1 · 2011
J. Mazar Barnett Disc 1 · 2011
More images
The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. 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: BOSB.CKD; CASB.CKD; FASB.CKD; MOSB.CKD; PASB.CKD; PCSB.CKD; PNSB.CKD; RERB.CKD; SERB.CKD; SESB.CKD; SRRB.CKD; SRSB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBRAZIL.CKD; SEBZ_D1.CKD
Disc 3 · 2006
Selected on local checklists: BOSB.CKD; CASB.CKD; FASB.CKD; MOSB.CKD; PARB.CKD; PASB.CKD; PCSB.CKD; PNSB.CKD; RERB.CKD; SDTC.CKD; SERB.CKD; SESB.CKD; SRRB.CKD; SRSB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd
Disc 1 · 2011
Selected on local checklists: BOSB.CKD; CASB.CKD; FASB.CKD; MOSB.CKD; PARB.CKD; PASB.CKD; PCSB.CKD; PNSB.CKD; RERB.CKD; SDTC.CKD; SERB.CKD; SESB.CKD; SRRB.CKD; SRSB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd