Egyptian Nightjar

Caprimulgus aegyptius Lichtenstein, MHK, 1823 (1, 1)

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STATUS

Eurasia and Africa. Polytypic.

OVERVIEW

This is the first of only two records to date [2020]. The other occurred 101 years later, in the same month, at Portland Bill.

Regarding the first record there is a stone to mark the spot where the bird fell in Thieves Wood, near Rainworth, Mansfield.

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RECORD

1). 1883 Nottinghamshire Rainworth, shot, 23rd June, now at Mansfield Museum.

(J. Whitaker, Zoologist 1883: 374-375; J. H. Gurney, jun., Ibis 26: 173-174; J. E. Harting, Field 15th Sept., 1883: 393; O. V. Aplin, Zoologist 1884: 51; O. V. Aplin, Naturalist 13: 200; Whitaker, 1907; F. C. R. Jourdain, British Birds 26: 313; Birds of Nottinghamshire Report 2001: plate 16).

2). 1984 Dorset Portland Bill, 10th June.

(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 84: 478; G. Walbridge, British Birds 92: 155-161).