🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Antillean Nighthawk live?

Chordeiles gundlachii has 21,126 records in 30 countries and territories, from 1883 to 2026. Most records come from Puerto Rico.

AnimaliaChordataAvesCaprimulgiformesCaprimulgidaeChordeiles

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Puerto Rico 6,262
United States 3,483
Cuba 3,438
Bahamas 3,098
Cayman Islands 1,768
Dominican Republic 1,225
Jamaica 544
Guadeloupe 498
Turks and Caicos Islands 476
US Virgin Islands 80
Antigua & Barbuda 54
Haiti 48
British Virgin Islands 27
Argentina 23
Martinique 21
Venezuela 21
Aruba 13
Montserrat 10
Canada 6
St Kitts & Nevis 6
Grenada 5
Curaçao 4
Saint Barthélemy 3
Bermuda 3
Anguilla 2
Dominica 2
Sint Maarten 2
Trinidad & Tobago 2
Colombia 1
Honduras 1

Related animals

Others in the family Caprimulgidae.

Madagascar Nightjar
Madagascar Nightjar
4,912 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.