Pauraque

Taxonomy

Order

Caprimulgiformes

Family

Caprimulgidae

Genus

Nyctidromus

eBird Code

compau

Subspecies (6)

• Nyctidromus albicollis albicollis

  southern Guatemala to northwestern Peru; eastern Colombia, northwestern Peru and Venezuela through the Guianas and Brazil

• Nyctidromus albicollis derbyanus

  central and southern Brazil to northeastern Argentina

• Nyctidromus albicollis gilvus

  Panama and northern Colombia

• Nyctidromus albicollis insularis

  Tres Marías Islands (off western Mexico)

• Nyctidromus albicollis merrilli

  lower Rio Grande Valley (southern Texas) to Tamaulipas (northeastern Mexico); winters to Puebla

• Nyctidromus albicollis yucatanensis

  tropical northern Mexico to Belize, Cozumel, and Guatemala