red-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus ruficollis)

Query: Iconographia zoologica

Result: 1180^th of 1524

Subject:	red-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus ruficollis)
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Description
Caprimulgus ruficollis
Date 1700-1880
Source/Photographer Iconographia Zoologica
Old Latin name Caprimulgus ruficollis
New Latin name Caprimulgus ruficollis
Common name Nederlands: Moorse nachtzwaluw
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caprimulgus_ruficollis_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ16700041.tif

The red-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus ruficollis) is the largest of the nightjars occurring in Europe. It breeds in Iberia and north Africa, and winters in tropical west Africa. Caprimulgus is derived from the Latin capra, "nanny goat", and mulgere, "to milk", referring to an old myth that nightjars suck milk from goats. The specific ruficollis is from Latin rufus, "red", and collum, "neck".

Iconographia zoologica
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