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Eastern Whip poor will 33711768298🐦

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SpeciesCaprimulgiformesCaprimulgidae
Birds

🐦Eastern whip-poor-will

Antrostomus vociferus (A.Wilson, 1812)

O noitibó-cantor ou noitibó-cantor-norte-americano (Antrostomus vociferus) é uma espécie de ave noturna da família dos caprimulgídeos nativa da América do Norte. É comumente ouvido dentro de sua distribuição, mas menos frequentemente visto por causa de sua camuflagem. Em inglês, é conhecido como "whip-poor-will", nomeado onomatopeicamente pelo seu canto.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/1,160th of your weight
Also called
Whip-poor-wil
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.05 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eastern whip-poor-will

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.05 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tail length
0.11 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.15 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.02 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.02 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Generalist
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Eastern whip-poor-will yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCaprimulgiformes
  5. ›familyCaprimulgidae
  6. ›genusAntrostomus
  7. ›speciesAntrostomus vociferus
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. genusAntrostomus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. genusAntrostomus
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In other languages
enganyapastors cridaner (ca), lelek křiklavý (cs), Nordamerikansk Natravn (da), Schwarzkehl-Nachtschwalbe (de), Caprimulgus vociferus (es), amerikankehrääjä (fi) … and 20 more languages
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Caprimulgus vociferus Sam Smith Park torontoEastern Whip poor will 33711768298Eastern Whip poor will 33711769148
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