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red-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus ruficollis)
Subject: red-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus ruficollis)
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Caprimulgus ruficollis - 1842-1848 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ16700039.jpg
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red-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus ruficollis)


Artist Jacques Christophe Werner (1798–1856)
Creator:Langlumé
Description
Caprimulgus ruficollis
Date 1842-1848
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Temminck & Werner, Oiseaux d'Europe, Ordre 8, Chelidons, 216
Old Latin name Caprimulgus ruficollis
New Latin name Caprimulgus ruficollis
Common name Nederlands: Moorse nachtzwaluw
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caprimulgus_ruficollis_-_1842-1848_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ16700039.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".

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