Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk vs Chuck-will's-widow

Erythrotriorchis buergersi compared with Antrostomus carolinensis

Key Differences

• Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk is Data Deficient while Chuck-will's-widow is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk	Chuck-will's-widow
Kingdom same	Animalia (Animals)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum same	Chordata (Chordates)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class same	Aves (Birds)	Aves (Birds)
Order	Accipitriformes (Hawks & Eagles)	Caprimulgiformes (Caprimulgiformes)
Family	Accipitridae (Hawks & Eagles)	Caprimulgidae
Genus	Erythrotriorchis	Antrostomus
Species	Erythrotriorchis buergersi	Antrostomus carolinensis

Evolutionary Relationship

Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk and Chuck-will's-widow share a common ancestor at the Class level: Aves. (Birds)

Conservation Status

Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk

DD — Data Deficient

Chuck-will's-widow

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk	Chuck-will's-widow
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk

Habitat

Typically found in various aerial, terrestrial, and aquatic environments.

Range

Found in Norway.

Chuck-will's-widow

Habitat

Typically found in various aerial, terrestrial, and aquatic environments.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Norway, and Venezuela.

Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk

The Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk (Erythrotriorchis buergersi) is a species in the genus Erythrotriorchis. It is currently classified as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in various aerial, terrestrial, and aquatic environments.

Chuck-will's-widow

The Chuck-will's-widow (Antrostomus carolinensis) is the largest nightjar in North America, named for its distinctive far-carrying call — a resonant four-syllable whistle repeated persistently on warm nights. It breeds across the southeastern United States, from the Atlantic coastal plain through the Gulf states and up the Mississippi Valley to southern Indiana and Kansas. The species migrates southward in autumn to winter quarters in the Caribbean, Central America, and northern South America. Like all nightjars, it is a crepuscular and nocturnal insectivore, capturing large moths, beetles, and other flying insects in flight using its enormous, bristle-fringed gape. By day, the Chuck-will's-widow roosts on the ground or along horizontal branches, relying on cryptic mottled plumage for concealment. It nests directly on the leaf litter of open woodland and scrub, typically in pine-oak forests, dry forests, and woodland edges. The IUCN classifies this species as Least Concern, though Breeding Bird Survey data suggest moderate long-term population declines linked to forest fragmentation and light pollution that disrupts insect prey availability. Conservation of large-scale woodland tracts in the southeastern United States benefits this species and its associated nightjar community.

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 1 countries:

🇳🇴 Norway