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Nyctidromus albicollis · Family Caprimulgidae
Nyctidromus albicollis
Family Caprimulgidae
- Order
- Caprimulgiformes
- Family
- Caprimulgidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 302,187
- Countries and territories with records
- 25
About this species
This species has 302,187 occurrence records from 25 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (19%), the United States (16.5%), Brazil (13.6%), Colombia (13.2%) and Mexico (7.5%); together they account for 69.7% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.22% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Nyctidromus albicollis combines the genus name Nyctidromus with the species epithet albicollis. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Nyctidromus: Nyctidromus anthonyi.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 85 species of the family Caprimulgidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Chordeiles minor. Its record count is 8.9 times the family average (34,050). The family Caprimulgidae belongs to the order Caprimulgiformes, which has 101 species in the Warbla app catalog.