Critically Endangered
Jamaican Poorwill
Siphonorhis americana
Jamaican Poorwill is a bird in the family Caprimulgidae (order Caprimulgiformes) — Siphonorhis americana, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The male's upperparts are rufous brown with blackish streaks. The chin and upper throat are rufous, the lower throat clear white, the breast rufous with faint narrow brown barring, and the belly and flanks buff with brown bars and large whitish spots. The tail is mostly rufous brown with brown flecks and bars. All but the central feathers have white tips.
It is 23 to 25 cm (9.1 to 9.8 in) long. It possessed distinct 2 mm long tubular nostrils that differentiated it from its relatives on the mainland.
Range and habitat
The few specimens of Jamaican poorwill from known localities were collected on the south side of the island. The habitats in Jamaica's south side included low elevation dry limestone forest, semi-open woodland, and open country. It is (or was) endemic to Jamaica and has not been recorded since 1860.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
The Jamaican poorwill is assumed to have been a nocturnal aerial insectivore like the least poorwill. The Jamaican poorwill is assumed to have laid its eggs on the ground without a nest like the least poorwill.
In crisis
Jamaican Poorwill is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Jamaican Poorwill, Wikidata item Q1092088. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
