Nombre en español: Guardacaminos Negruzco

Nombre en ingles: Blackish Nightjar

Nombre científico: Nyctipolus nigrescens

Familia: Caprimulgidae

Foto: Humberto Montes

Canto: Andrew Spencer

El chotacabras negruzco o guardacaminos negruzco (Nyctipolus nigrescens) es una especie de ave caprimulgiforme de la familia Caprimulgidae que vive en Sudamérica.

Descripción

Es un chotacabras relativamente pequeño, mide unos 19,5 cm. Es de coloración muy oscura, los machos tienen manchas blancas en la parte lateral de la garganta y la punta de las alas, pero las hembras son totalmente oscuras.

Distribución y hábitat

Se encuentra en Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, la Guayana, Guyana, Perú, Surinam yVenezuela.

Sus hábitat natural son las selvas húmedas.

Blackish nightjar

The blackish nightjar (Nyctipolus nigrescens) is a species of bird in the family Caprimulgidae. This relatively small dark nightjar is found in the Guianas and the Amazon. It is rare or even absent in the western part, but is among the commonest nightjars in the eastern Amazon and the Guianas.

Blackish Nightjar is a relatively small dark nightjar, well named for its predominantly blackish plumage; this coloration provides good camouflage against this nightjar’s preferred microhabitat of granite rock outcroppings in forest clearings and along trails. This preference means that the species is regularly encountered by ornithologists and birdwatchers, because the species is comparatively easier to find day roosting than many other nightjars in the Neotropics. Blackish Nightjar plumage also lacks any collared effect. This species occurs from eastern Colombia across much of Amazonian Brazil, north to southern Venezuela and the Guianas, and south to Bolivia, and from sea level to approximately 1200 m. Due to its undoubted abundance, the breeding biology of Blackish Nightjar is better known than many other Neotropical nightjars.