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The genus Lurocalis contains the chestnut-banded nighthawk (Lurocalis nattereri), the Rufous-bellied nighthawk (Lurocalis rufiventris), and the short-tailed nighthawk (Lurocalis semitorquatus). [4] There is only one species in the monotypic genus Nyctiprogne which is the band-tailed nighthawk ( Nyctiprogne leucopyga ), a small bird ...
The common nighthawk resembles both the Antillean nighthawk and the lesser nighthawk and occurs at least seasonally in the entire North American range of both of these species. The lesser nighthawk is a smaller bird and displays more buffy on the undertail coverts, where the common nighthawk shows white.
Genus Eurostopodus (7 species) Genus Lyncornis (2 species) ... Species that live in the far north, such as the European nightjar or the common nighthawk, migrate ...
Common nighthawk: Chordeiles minor (Forster, JR, 1771) 15 Antillean nighthawk: Chordeiles gundlachii Lawrence, 1857: 16 Short-tailed nighthawk: Lurocalis semitorquatus (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 17 Rufous-bellied nighthawk: Lurocalis rufiventris Taczanowski, 1884: 18 Band-tailed nighthawk: Nyctiprogne leucopyga (Spix, 1825) 19 Plain-tailed nighthawk
Short-tailed nighthawk Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Clade: Strisores Order: Caprimulgiformes Family: Caprimulgidae Genus: Lurocalis Species: L. semitorquatus Binomial name Lurocalis semitorquatus (Gmelin, JF, 1789) Approximate range map of short-tailed nighthawk The short-tailed nighthawk ...
The genus Lurocalis was introduced in 1851 by the American ornithologist John Cassin. [1] The type species was designated as Caprimulgus nattereri Temminck, 1822, by George Robert Gray in 1855. This taxon is now considered as a subspecies of the short-tailed nighthawk.
Common nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) Scientific classification; Domain: Eukaryota: ... Chordeiles is a New World genus of nighthawks in the family Caprimulgidae.
Nyctiprogne is a genus of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. ... Band-tailed nighthawk (Nyctiprogne leucopyga) Plain-tailed nighthawk (Nyctiprogne vielliardi