{"id":2445,"date":"2010-09-29T22:12:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T04:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2010-10-19T20:42:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T02:42:58","slug":"band-winged-nightjar-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/archives\/2445","title":{"rendered":"Band-winged Nightjar Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2446\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bwni.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2446  \" title=\"bwni\" src=\"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bwni-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bwni-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bwni.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Band-winged Nightjar (subspecies decussatus), Rafan, Lambayeque, Peru.  January 2010, copyright Christian Nunes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit I was crushed when Nathan wrote a feature for xeno-canto before I did.\u00a0 I have no one to blame but myself; it was pure laziness on my part that kept me from doing one.\u00a0 After I got over the bruised ego from him being first I got my act in gear and wrote one of my own.\u00a0 So if you want to read about the vocal variation in Band-winged Nightjars, check out my first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/america\/features.php?blognr=76&amp;action=view\" target=\"_blank\">xeno-canto feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like Flycatchers and other suboscine passerines, Nightjars don&#8217;t learn their voices.\u00a0 So distinct vocal variations may well have taxonomic implications.\u00a0 In Band-winged Nightjar in particular there seems to be a good case for further study,\u00a0 and potentially splitting the species.\u00a0\u00a0 For example, note how the <a title=\"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\" href=\"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\" target=\"_blank\">differences in Whip-poor-will<\/a> vocalizations recently played a role in the split of that species.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if any of you have recordings of Band-winged Nightjars you could upload to XC, especially of the <em>decussatus<\/em>, <em>roraimae<\/em>, or <em>patagonicus<\/em> subspecies that would be of great help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit I was crushed when Nathan wrote a feature for xeno-canto before I did.  I have no one to blame but myself; it was pure laziness on my part that kept me from doing one.  After I got over the bruised ego from him being first I got my act in gear and wrote one of my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,16],"tags":[170,171],"class_list":["post-2445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-id","category-news","category-taxonomy","tag-band-winged-nightjar","tag-caprimulgus-longirostris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458,"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions\/2458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}