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Caprimulgus fraenatus (Sombre Nightjar)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Sombre Nightjar (Caprimulgus fraenatus) is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
View Wikipedia Record: Caprimulgus fraenatus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  60 grams
Clutch Size [2]  1

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Map Climate Land
Use
Albertine Rift montane forests Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi,Tanzania Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
East African montane forests Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ethiopian montane forests Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands Ethiopia, Eritrea Afrotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands Kenya Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
Serengeti volcanic grasslands Tanzania Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets Tanzania, Kenya Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
Southern Rift montane forest-grassland mosaic Malawi, Tanzania Afrotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Map Climate Land Use
Lake Nakuru National Park II 46472 Kenya  
Nairobi National Park II 16444 Kenya
Nechisar National Park II 256137 Ethiopia  
Serengeti-Ngorongoro Biosphere Reserve 5696026 Tanzania  
Tsavo National Park II 3232255 Kenya

Important Bird Areas

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Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Map   Climate   Land Use 
Amboseli National Park Kenya A3
Arusha National Park Tanzania A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii
Asmara escarpment Eritrea A1, A2, A3
Awash National Park Ethiopia A1, A2, A3
Bandingilo Sudan A3
Bogol Manyo: Dolo Ethiopia A1, A2, A3
Boorama plains Somalia A1, A2, A3
Dida Galgalu desert Kenya A1, A2, A3
Kianyaga valleys Kenya A1, A2
Lake Chew Bahir Ethiopia A1, A3, A4i, A4iii
Lake Elmenteita Kenya A1, A2, A4i, A4iii
Lake Magadi Kenya A1, A4i, A4iii
Lake Nakuru National Park Kenya A1, A2, A4i, A4iii
Lake Natron and Engaruka basin Tanzania A1, A3, A4i, A4iii
Machakos valleys Kenya A1, A2
Masai Mara Kenya A1, A2
Meru National Park Kenya A1, A2, A3
Mount Elgon Kenya A1, A2, A3
Nairobi National Park Kenya A1, A2, A4ii
Nechisar National Park Ethiopia A1, A2, A3
Nyumba ya Mungu reservoir Tanzania A1, A3, A4i
Omo National Park Ethiopia A3
Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves Kenya A3
Serengeti National Park Tanzania A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii
Shaba National Reserve Kenya A1, A2, A3
South Nguruman Kenya A1, A2
Tsavo East National Park Kenya A1, A3
Tsavo West National Park Kenya A1, A3

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website Map
Eastern Afromontane Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe No
Horn of Africa Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen No

Range Map

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External References

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Citations

Species recognized by Peterson A.P., 28-Sep-2005, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 2Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 gis.wwfus.org/wildfinder
Protected Areas provided by Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas in cooperation between the Information Center for the Environment at the University of California, Davis and numerous collaborators.
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Biodiversity Hotspots, Conservation International
Important Bird Areas provided by BirdLife International (2010) Important Bird Areas. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 29/12/2010
Images provided by Google Image Search
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Range map provided by BirdLife International (2011) Bird species distribution maps of the world.
Weather provided by NOAA METAR Data Access