Itombwe Nightjar Caprimulgus prigoginei Scientific name definitions

Itombwe Mts, in E DRCongo. Some sound recordings from SE Cameroon, N Congo and Gabon possibly refer to this species, suggesting that it may be more widespread (1 Dowsett-Lemaire, F. and Dowsett, R.J. (2000). Birds of the Lobéké Faunal Reserve, Cameroon, and its regional importance for conservation. Bird Conserv. Int. 10(1): 67–87. Close , 2 Butchart, S. H. M. (2007). Birds to find: a review of “lost”, obscure and poorly known African bird species. Bulletin of the African Bird Club 14(2):139–157. Close , 3 Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (2009). The song of presumed Prigogine’s Nightjar Caprimulgus prigoginei and its possible occurrence in Lower Guinea. Bull. Afr. Bird Club 16(2): 174–179. Close ).

ENDANGERED. Restricted-range species: present in Albertine Rift Mountains EBA. Currently known only from type specimen, a female, taken at Malenge, Itombwe, in Kivu Province, E Congo-Kinshasa in Aug 1955. Unidentified nightjars, which are likely to be this species, continue to be seen and heard in vicinity of type locality, and have also been reported from a further six sites in forests of Congo-Brazzaville, Cameroon and possibly Gabon (2 Butchart, S. H. M. (2007). Birds to find: a review of “lost”, obscure and poorly known African bird species. Bulletin of the African Bird Club 14(2):139–157. Close , 3 Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (2009). The song of presumed Prigogine’s Nightjar Caprimulgus prigoginei and its possible occurrence in Lower Guinea. Bull. Afr. Bird Club 16(2): 174–179. Close ). Listed as Vulnerable until 2000; reclassified as Endangered because of its small (2200 km²) known range within which deforestation is a potential threat BirdLife International (2015) Species factsheet: Caprimulgus prigoginei. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 12/01/2015. . It should be sought using mist-nets and sound-recordings in the Itombwe Mountains and more widely in lowland and montane forests of Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Brazzaville and Cameroon (2 Butchart, S. H. M. (2007). Birds to find: a review of “lost”, obscure and poorly known African bird species. Bulletin of the African Bird Club 14(2):139–157. Close ).