---
title: "Bacurau-tesoura"
description: "Hydropsalis torquata — Aves. The scissor-tailed nightjar (Hydropsalis torquata) is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/scissor-tailed-nightjar
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Bacurau-tesoura

> Hydropsalis torquata — Aves. The scissor-tailed nightjar (Hydropsalis torquata) is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae.

- Scientific name: *Hydropsalis torquata*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1449
- Wikidata: [Q1262114](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1262114)
- iNaturalist taxon: [19565](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/19565)

## Names

- en: Scissor-tailed Nightjar
- de: Scherenschwanz-Nachtschwalbe
- es: Atajacaminos tijera
- fr: Engoulevent à queue en ciseaux
- nl: Spiesstaartnachtzwaluw
- pt: Bacurau-tesoura
- pl: Lelkowiec długosterny

## Countries with the most observations

AR (688), BR (421), UY (139), PY (26), BO (13)

## Summary

The scissor-tailed nightjar (Hydropsalis torquata) is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. It is distributed over much of eastern South America.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scissor-tailed_nightjar

## Photo

![Bacurau-tesoura](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/scissor-tailed-nightjar/medium.jpg)

Photo: Sebastián Gómez Barboza Silveira · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144429455

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/scissor-tailed-nightjar?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).