Jungle Nightjar

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. 

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. 

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. 

Range map from Birds of the World. 

It has previously been called the gray nightjar and Indian jungle nightjar.