#collared nightjar

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Round 2, Poll 23

Collared Nightjar vs Kagu

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Collared Nightjar

eBird Sightings - 415

IUCN Status - Least Concern

Location: Africa - Madagascar; all along the eastern third of the island.

Kagu

eBird Sightings - 407

IUCN Status - Endangered

Location: Oceania - New Caledonia

“It’s a really neat flightless island-endemic from New Caledonia, the only member of its family, and iirc we’re still not entirely sure who it’s related to.”

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Collared Nightjar

Kagu

Voting ended onAug 20, 2023

Images: Nightjar (Chris Venetz); Kagu (Toni Palliser)

Stats grabbed from Birds of the World

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Round 1, Poll 45

Collared Nightjar vs Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker

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Collared Nightjar Propaganda

eBird Sightings - 415

IUCN Status - Least Concern

Location: Africa - Madagascar; all along the eastern third of the island.

Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker Propaganda

eBird Sightings - 3,741

IUCN Status - Least Concern

Location: Europe & Asia - distrubuted sparsely across the various mountain chains of the Eurasian continent.

"where i'm from it's a super rare bird that you can only see in 2 places in the country, which always excited me, so it's one of those birds i'd really like to see one day"

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Collared Nightjar

Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker

Voting ended onJul 26, 2023

Image Sources: Nightjar (Chris Venetz); Woodpecker (Pavel Parkhaev)

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[2556/11080] Collared nightjar - Gactornis enarratus

Order: Caprimulgiformes (nightjars) Family: Caprimulgidae Subfamily: Caprimulginae (typical nightjars)

Photo credit: Shailesh Pinto via Macaulay Library

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Collared nightjar (Gactornis enarratus)

The collared nightjar is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

photo credits: Frank Vassen