Dante Buzzetti shares a very rare recording of a White-winged Nightjar. The first from Brazil on XC. The image shows the male that is vocalising on the recording. Notice the white areas characteristic of the species. The male adopted this pose when Dante approached the place where he was vocalizing, on a terrestrial termite mound. The bird threw itself on the ground and opened his wings in this defensive posture, instead of flying away.
White-winged Nightjar
White-winged Nightjar, male near singing post © Dante Buzzetti
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.... the incredible Marc Anderson has dug in his archives and adds a bunch of new mammals for XC from Australia. Fantastic. Thanks for sharing Marc!
Jayrson Araujo de Oliveira has surpassed 10,000 recordings on XC, practically all from Brazil. An amazing contribution, Jayrson, parabens!
Congratulations Jayrson and thanks for all your work to make us smarter. Sue
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Cool recordings from Uganda coming in these days, courtesy of Jonathan Onongo. Thanks for sharing Jonathan!
Thanks for noticing. Special appreciation to the eBird team for providing me with training in sound recording and editing. eBird and Idea Wild also provided the audio recording equipment that has made the recordings possible. Look forward to continuing to contribute more sound recordings.
Great to hear all of that Jonathan. Keep recording!
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