This goatsucker works trip features and roosts plainly. Normally individual, it sometimes forages or migrates in reduce flocks. Polytypic. Length 8.8–9.6" (22–24 cm).
Identification Deviates geographically. Upperparts black to paler darkish gray; title and spine darkest; paler marks powerful on upperwing coverts, scapulars, tertials. Underparts prohibited blackish darkish and bright or strong, torso and malar area dark, identified with strong or unexciting bright. Mature male: bright neck spot, subterminal longest tail group, and major spot about almost between move of side and side tip. Mature female: neck spot buffy, major spot cheaper, longest tail group reduced or missing. Juvenile: generally paler, more consistent above with small distinguishing and vermiculations.
Geographic Difference Nine subspecies, 7 in Southern The united states. Southern wildlife pitch-dark, blackish above, less mottling on back; nominate modest (large), chapmani (smaller). Excellent Plains-Great Basin-Southwestern wildlife paler, grayer; henryi (medium size), howelli (large), sennetti (large), and aserriensis (small). American hesperis relatively dark, grayer, huge. Child modest and chapmani blackish; sennetti palest; hesperis, howelli, aserriensis intermediate; henryi rustic.
Similar Types Position of side spot, lack of strong distinguishing on primaries, pointier side, and dark underwing coverts get rid of Less. Separating from Antillean problematic; best told by express, but Antillean also usually cheaper, reduced winged, and buffier on waist and undertail coverts.
Voice Call: nose peent by using its in flight; multiple-syllable variation may recommend Antillean. Male courtship jump vibrates primaries, generating “boom.”
Status and Submission Common. Breeding: open environments. Migration: in early spring, occurs early April–mid-June, high May, introduction later in Southern, West; leaves overdue July–October, high July, stragglers into Nov. Winter: Southern America; recreational Beach Seacoast. Vagrant: casual/accidental, mainly fall, Beautiful lovely hawaii, south North america, and United Business.
Population Some diminishes in parts of China.
Identification Deviates geographically. Upperparts black to paler darkish gray; title and spine darkest; paler marks powerful on upperwing coverts, scapulars, tertials. Underparts prohibited blackish darkish and bright or strong, torso and malar area dark, identified with strong or unexciting bright. Mature male: bright neck spot, subterminal longest tail group, and major spot about almost between move of side and side tip. Mature female: neck spot buffy, major spot cheaper, longest tail group reduced or missing. Juvenile: generally paler, more consistent above with small distinguishing and vermiculations.
Geographic Difference Nine subspecies, 7 in Southern The united states. Southern wildlife pitch-dark, blackish above, less mottling on back; nominate modest (large), chapmani (smaller). Excellent Plains-Great Basin-Southwestern wildlife paler, grayer; henryi (medium size), howelli (large), sennetti (large), and aserriensis (small). American hesperis relatively dark, grayer, huge. Child modest and chapmani blackish; sennetti palest; hesperis, howelli, aserriensis intermediate; henryi rustic.
Similar Types Position of side spot, lack of strong distinguishing on primaries, pointier side, and dark underwing coverts get rid of Less. Separating from Antillean problematic; best told by express, but Antillean also usually cheaper, reduced winged, and buffier on waist and undertail coverts.
Voice Call: nose peent by using its in flight; multiple-syllable variation may recommend Antillean. Male courtship jump vibrates primaries, generating “boom.”
Status and Submission Common. Breeding: open environments. Migration: in early spring, occurs early April–mid-June, high May, introduction later in Southern, West; leaves overdue July–October, high July, stragglers into Nov. Winter: Southern America; recreational Beach Seacoast. Vagrant: casual/accidental, mainly fall, Beautiful lovely hawaii, south North america, and United Business.
Population Some diminishes in parts of China.
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