Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Caprimulgidae
Genus
Uropsalis
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Lyre-tailed Nightjar Uropsalis lyra

Benjamin Van Doren
Version: 1.0 — Published August 29, 2014

Sounds and Vocal Behavior

Vocalizations

The rollicking song of Lyre-tailed Nightjar is most often heard at dusk and consists of 5-11 rising wéeou-tee notes, given from a perch or from the ground (Cleere 1998). The song also may be given in flight or while chasing a female (Ridgely and Greenfield 2001).

For a representative audio recording with sonogram, see audio

Displaying males utter weep-weep-weep-weepupup in rapid series (McKay and Gertler, in Hilty and Brown 1986).

The call has been described as weep-weep-weep or chip-chip-chip, given both by perched and flying birds (McKay and Gertler, in Hilty and Brown 1986).

Additional audio recordings of vocalizations of Lyre-tailed Nightjar can be heard at Macaulay Library and at xeno-canto.

Nonvocal Sounds

None described.

Recommended Citation

Van Doren, B. (2014). Lyre-tailed Nightjar (Uropsalis lyra), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.lytnig1.01