Family: Caprimulgidae (Nightjars)

Authority: Temminck, 1820

Red List Category

Criteria: A2bce+3bce+4bce

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Justification of Red List category
The species is undergoing moderately rapid declines across its main breeding range in Spain. Current trends from what may be a large portion of the breeding range in North Africa are unknown, and indeed the proportion of the population this represents is also unknown. While some threats noted as drivers of the decline in Spain are considered likely to be less severe in North Africa, habitat degradation and loss, and insectivore decline are likely to apply across the range. As such, measured rates of reduction are suspected to apply throughout, and these approach the thresholds for listing the species as threatened. As such, the species is assessed as Near Threatened.

Population size: 575000-770000 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 1,910,000 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Realm - Afrotropical
Realm - Palearctic
IUCN System - Terrestrial
AEMLAP