New Caledonian Owlet-Nightjar

This bird is endemic to New Caledonia’s Melaleuca savanna and humid forests. Other members of its genus are highly territorial and nest in holes in trees. These birds also forage by sitting on a branch and attacking small animals. It is unknown if these habits apply to the New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar, but this species is larger and has longer legs than the others, so it may be more terrestrial.

The New Caledonian Owlet-Nightjar is classified as Critically Endangered (CR), facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar, but this species is larger and has longer legs than the others, so it may be more terrestrial. The type specimen was collected from a bird that flew into a bedroom in the village of Tonghoué. This large nightjar is known from two specimens taken in 1880 and 1915 and a couple of sightings. The most recent is from the 1998 expedition which saw a large nightjar foraging for insects at dusk in Rivière Ni Valley. More

New Caledonian owlet-nightjars were known only from a single specimen collected in 1880, and they were feared extinct until a sighting was reported in 1998. It is now regarded as Critically Endangered. None of the other species is thought to be seriously threatened, although several of those in New Guinea remain poorly known and susceptible to deforestation. More

The New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles savesi is known with certainty from just the type specimen, a bird collected from a bedroom in the village of Tonghoué, to which it had flown into on 1 April 1880. This skin now resides in the Liverpool Museum, UK. A number of other unconfirmed records were also reported from various locations on Grand Terre in the early part of the twentieth century. Recently a second specimen dated from 1915 has also apparently been discovered in an Italian museum. More

Images New Caledonian owlet-nightjar, one of only two known specimens New Caledonian owlet-nightjar, one of only two known specimens Species related by - * Family group * Habitat * Conservation status * * View image slideshow * Link to this image * Email to a friend More

Information on the New Caledonian owlet-nightjar is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly. Authentication - This information is awaiting authentication by a species expert, and will be updated as soon as possible. If you are able to help please contact: arkive@wildscreen.org.uk References - 1. IUCN Red List (May, 2009) http://www.iucnredlist. More

that the New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar was derived from a species of birds from Frances, which then moved to places such as New Guinea and Australia. They are small nocturnal creatures ranging from 20 to 25 centimeters in length which eat insects and occasionally small or young reptiles. Owlet-nightjars are normally grey or russt in color. Their breeding season is the later half of the year, when normally three or four eggs are tended by both the male and the female. More

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The New Caledonian owlet-nightjar is Critically Endangered, facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild, according to the World Conservation Union (IUCN). The New Caledonian owlet-nightjar population was thought to be extinct. The New Caledonian owlet-nightjar was identified in 1880 when a specimen, a single bird, was collected. No other birds were seen and the New Caledonian owlet-nightjar was declared extinct. However, the species had not died out. More

The New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles savesi is a large owlet-nightjar (a kind of bird related to swifts and goatsuckers) with vermiculated grey-brown and black plumage. More