Key Identification Features
- Their belly is buff with brown bars; they have a broad but indistinct buff collar on the hindneck, a buffy chin, and a white throat.
- The male Pennant-winged nightjar, Caprimulgus vexillarius, can be recognized by a distinct broad white band that crosses its otherwise black primary wing feathers.
- Male wings have a distinctly angular shape, because the 9th distal primary and the 1st through 3rd proximal primaries are the longest feathers on the wing.
- Its tail is dark brown, with indistinct lighter bars and mottling; males have a white tip on the tail.
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