This nightjar lives in open grasslands from central Brazil to Paraguay. In breeding season males make short display flights with wing sounds; Bolivia has only a few September records from seasonally flooded savanna.
In flight, the male shows conspicuous white wings and tail; the female is brown and lacks white patches.
Males make short display flights with wing sounds during the breeding season. The two documented Bolivian records were from September in seasonally flooded savanna.
The male tail is white except for the pale gray-brown central pair of feathers.
The male primaries are white toward the base and blackish toward the tips.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.