Red-necked Nightjar
Caprimulgus ruficollis Temminck, 1820 (1, 0)
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STATUS
Eurasia and Africa. Polytypic.
OVERVIEW
Still the sole record after the first two decades of the 21st century.
RECORD
1). 1856 Northumberland Killingworth, male, shot, 5th October, C. r. ruficollis, now at Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle-on-Tyne (Acc. No. NEWHM 1999. H1071).
(J. Hancock, Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club 5: 84-85; J. Hancock, Zoologist 1862: 7936-7937; J. Hancock, Ibis 4: 39-40; Yarrell, 1871-85; J. T. T. Reed, Naturalist 12: 76; Bolam, 1912; BOURC (1927), Ibis 69: 312; Galloway & Meek, 1978-83; N. Cleere, British Birds 94: 393; BOURC (2006), Ibis 149: 195; T. Melling, British Birds 102: 110-115, plates 79-81).
