Aegothelidae (Owlet-nightjars)

Family

Owlet-nightjars

Aegothelidae

2 species in our catalog · found in 18 parks

Species in this group

Each card shows the species at its best park — tap for the full profile

Australian Owlet-nightjar
LC

Australian Owlet-nightjar

☀️🌙 Day & Night Bird

Aegotheles cristatus

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Wallace's Owlet-nightjar
LC

Wallace's Owlet-nightjar

☀️🌙 Day & Night Bird

Aegotheles wallacii

Daily sighting probability <5% · Rare

Daily sighting probability by month

Probability-weighted average across the group's species

<5%
Jan
<5%
Feb
<5%
Mar
<5%
Apr
<5%
May
<5%
Jun
<5%
Jul
<5%
Aug
<5%
Sep
<5%
Oct
<5%
Nov
~10%
Dec

When they're spotted

When the group's species are recorded (aggregated)

☀️🌙🌙12am6am12pm6pm12am

Where to see Owlet-nightjars

Worldwide records of this group (human observations from 2019 onwards, GBIF). Pins mark our parks — tap one for the chance of seeing at least one species of the group there.

Parks Ranked

Chance of seeing at least one species of the group · number of its species present

#ParkCountrySpeciesDaily sighting probability
1 Noosa National Park 🇦🇺 Australia 1
~10%
2 Lamington National Park 🇦🇺 Australia 1
<5%
3 Nitmiluk National Park 🇦🇺 Australia 1
<5%
4 Kosciuszko National Park 🇦🇺 Australia 1
<5%
5 Kakadu National Park 🇦🇺 Australia 1
<5%
6 Flinders Ranges National Park 🇦🇺 Australia 1
<5%
7 Raja Ampat 🇮🇩 Indonesia 1
<5%
8 Blue Mountains National Park 🇦🇺 Australia 1
<5%
9 Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park 🇦🇺 Australia 1
<5%
10 Litchfield National Park 🇦🇺 Australia 1
<5%
11 Springbrook National Park 🇦🇺 Australia 1
<5%
12 Great Otway National Park 🇦🇺 Australia 1
<5%
13 Ningaloo Marine Park 🇦🇺 Australia 1
<5%
14 Flinders Chase 🇦🇺 Australia 1
<5%
15 Grampians National Park 🇦🇺 Australia 1
<5%
16 Royal National Park 🇦🇺 Australia 1
<5%
17 Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park 🇦🇺 Australia 1
<5%
18 Cape Range 🇦🇺 Australia 1
<5%