This is a continuation of the thread on my posts the last two days on the black bittern and dusky eagle-owl. I'd provided an incentive of 300 Rupees (a little over $3 USD) for each new lifer (a bird I'd never seen before) our guide could find for me, so long as I could get a photograph of it. It was apparent that our guide, Ashok, a naturalist who'd been working in Keoladeo NP for ten years, knew where to find less frequently seen birds and I wanted to incentivize him to tap into that knowledge. He'd asked if I'd ever seen a black bittern, a dusky eagle-owl or a jungle nightjar before, and I acknowledged I hadn't, so it was apparent he knew where to find them. As our motorized rickshaws were stopped looking at some other birds, Ashok searched some trees with limbs hanging over a stream to the side of the road and found several jungle nightjars perched on the branches. I had a hard time seeing them, so he took some photos with my camera and set up his scope for all to see and took cell phone photos through the scope.
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| Jungle nightjar photo taken by Ashok. |
The jungle nightjar is mostly gray with black streaks on the crown and has a rufous wingpatch. The tail is grayish and and has separated black bars. The male has a white throat patch that is broken at the middle and the female has a rufous throat patch and submoustachial streaks.
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| This and the following are illustrations of the jungle nightjar from Birds of the World. The one above is a flying female. The two below are males, one perched and one flying. |
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| Range map from Birds of the World. |
It has previously been called the gray nightjar and Indian jungle nightjar.
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