Caprimulgus solala Safford, Ash, Duckworth, Telfer & Zewdie, 1995

Nechisar nightjar

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Last record: 1990 (Martin et al., 2023)

Rediscovered in April 2009

IUCN RedList status: Vulnerable

Distribution

Nechisar National Park, Ethiopia

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Safford, R. J.; Ash, J. S.; Duckworth, J. W.; Telfer, M. G.; Zewdie, C. (1995). A new species of nightjar from Ethiopia. Ibis 137: 301-307.

Other references:

Anon. 2009. Rarest bird on Earth - spotted at last! Africa - Birds & Birding 14(4): 58.

BirdLife International. (2012). Caprimulgus solala. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 13 December 2014.

Butchart, S. H. M. 2007. Nechisar Nightjar Caprimulgus solala. Bulletin of the African Bird Club 14(2): 142.

EWNHS. 1996. Important Bird Areas of Ethiopia: a first inventory. Ethiopian Wildlife and Natural History Society, Addis Ababa.

Forero, M. G.; Tella, J. L. 1997. Sexual dimorphism, plumage variability and species determination in nightjars: the need for further examination of the Nechisar Nightjar Caprimulgus solala. Ibis 139: 407-409.

Head, Vernon R. L. (2015). The search for the rarest bird in the world. Oxford: Signal Books. 244 pp.

Martin, Thomas E., Bennett, Gareth C., Fairbairn, Andrew J. and Mooers, A. Ø. (2023). ‘Lost’ taxa and their conservation implications. Animal Conservation 26(1): 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12788 [Appendix S2 (1617 taxa not seen >10 years); Appendix S3 (562 taxa not seen >50 years)]

Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]

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