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Caprimulgus europaeus

Caprimulgus europaeus

Linnaeus, 1758

GBIF:193321706

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STATUS. — Palaearctic migrant?
Boano, Giovanni, Belemsobgo, Urbain, Silvano, Fabrizio, Hema, Emmanuel M., Belemsobgo, Aristide, Dimobe, Kangbéni, Pavia, Marco (2022): An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso. Zoosystema 44 (2): 27-107, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a2
LITERATURE. — Borrow & Demey (2001, 2014); Sinclair & Ryan (2010).
Boano, Giovanni, Belemsobgo, Urbain, Silvano, Fabrizio, Hema, Emmanuel M., Belemsobgo, Aristide, Dimobe, Kangbéni, Pavia, Marco (2022): An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso. Zoosystema 44 (2): 27-107, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a2
REMARK. — The presence of C. europaeus as widespread Palaearctic migrant is reported in all the field guides, including Borrow & Demey (2014). Recent works with geolocators indicate that the species winter mostly in southern tropical Africa, far outside the generally described wintering range (Norevik et al. 2017). The presence of this species in Burkina Faso requires additional assessment.
Boano, Giovanni, Belemsobgo, Urbain, Silvano, Fabrizio, Hema, Emmanuel M., Belemsobgo, Aristide, Dimobe, Kangbéni, Pavia, Marco (2022): An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso. Zoosystema 44 (2): 27-107, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a2

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An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso

checklist

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Boano, Giovanni, Belemsobgo, Urbain, Silvano, Fabrizio, Hema, Emmanuel M., Belemsobgo, Aristide, Dimobe, Kangbéni, Pavia, Marco (2022): An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso. Zoosystema 44 (2): 27-107, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a2

ABSTRACT

We provide an updated and annotated checklist of Burkina Faso birds. This compilation takes into account our field research (2003, 2010, 2011 and 2012), museum specimens, and a thorough bibliographic search providing references to all the original records for each taxa. We clearly define criteria for acceptance in the checklist and discuss dubious or erroneous records. In this list, we adopted the HBW-BirdLife International List for nomenclature, species sequence, and higher level taxonomy (from genus to order). The list includes information for 566 species, admitting 486 species as part of the Burkina Faso bird checklist (updated on 31 December 2020). Twenty-three species are of conservation concern, among which it is worth mentioning the seven species of vultures.

Boano G, Belemsobgo U, Silvano F, Hema E M, Belemsobgo A, Dimobe K, Pavia M, felipe (2022). An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso. Zoosystema. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/2bdrqa accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-15.

CC0Published 2/3/2022View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
193321706
Dataset Key
2c04922c-82dd-4718-ab22-c9772408de9c
Origin
source
Backbone Key
8109681
Taxon ID
E25387BB2E42FFF4FC048F56FAFFFA59.taxon
Last Crawled
6/9/2026
Last Interpreted
6/9/2026