New Caledonian Nightjar
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New Caledonian Nightjar

Eurostopodus exul

FAMILY

Nightjars and Allies (Caprimulgidae)

LAST DOCUMENTED

1939

(87 years)

REGION

Oceania

IUCN STATUS

Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

Last Documented

Known only from a single specimen, which was collected in coastal savanna along the northeastern edge of Grande Terre, New Caledonia (August 1939).

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