| Jerdon's nightjar | |
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| C. a. atripennis
Mangaon, Raigad, Maharashtra | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Caprimulgiformes |
| Family: | Caprimulgidae |
| Genus: | Caprimulgus |
| Species: | C. atripennis
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| Binomial name | |
| Caprimulgus atripennis Jerdon, 1845
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Sri Lanka
Jerdon's nightjar (Caprimulgus atripennis) is a medium-sized nightjar species native to southern India and Sri Lanka. Formerly considered as a subspecies of the long-tailed nightjar, it is best recognized by its distinctive call which sounds like a wooden plank being beaten periodically with each note ending in a quaver.[2] The common name commemorates Thomas C. Jerdon who described the species.[3]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Caprimulgus atripennis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22689931A93253085. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ Grimmett, R.; Inskipp, C.; Inskipp, T. & Byers, C. (1999). Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-04910-6.
- ^ Beolens, B.; Watkins, M.l. (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 180–181.