Grey Nightjar
A species of Old World Nightjars Scientific name : Caprimulgus jotaka Genus : Old World Nightjars
Grey Nightjar, A species of Old World Nightjars
Botanical name: Caprimulgus jotaka
Genus: Old World Nightjars
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Description General Info
Photo By Jason Thompson from Bangkok, Thailand , used under CC-BY-2.0 /Cropped and compressed from original 
Description
The grey nightjar (Caprimulgus jotaka) is a species of nightjar found in East Asia. It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the jungle nightjar (C. indicus), its South Asian relative. 
Size
38 cm
Nest Placement
Ground
Feeding Habits
Grey Nightjar primarily feeds on flying insects like moths, hemipterans, and flying ants. They also consume grasshoppers, locustids, cockchafers, small wasps, and termites. Grey Nightjar forages at dusk or dawn, adept at catching prey mid-air. Unique adaptations include silent flight, facilitating successful nocturnal hunting.
Habitat
Open scrub, heavily forested areas with clearings, at treeline in mountains, sparsely vegetated ravines, jungle-clad hillsides, around the margins of montane zones, abundance being greater at sites within a 4−km radius of moderate forest cover and with high average temperatures during the breeding season, winter mainly at edge of mangroves, inland forest, second growth, overgrown plantations, coastal scrub
Dite type
Insectivorous
General Info
Feeding Habits
Bird food type
Photo By Jason Thompson from Bangkok, Thailand , used under CC-BY-2.0 /Cropped and compressed from original 
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Chordates Class
Birds Order
Nightjars and Relatives Family
Nightjars and nighthawks Genus
Old World Nightjars Species
Grey Nightjar 
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