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Species
There are 86 species of Nightjars & Nighthawks currently recognised:
Spotted Eared-Nightjar Eurostopodus argus
White-throated Eared-Nightjar Eurostopodus mystacalis
Satanic Eared-Nightjar Eurostopodus diabolicus
Papuan Eared-Nightjar Eurostopodus papuensis
Mountain Eared-Nightjar Eurostopodus archboldi
Malaysian Eared-Nightjar Eurostopodus temminckii
Great Eared-Nightjar Eurostopodus macrotis
Short-tailed Nighthawk Lurocalis semitorquatus
Rufous-bellied Nighthawk Lurocalis rufiventris
Least Nighthawk Chordeiles pusillus
Sand-colored Nighthawk Chordeiles rupestris
Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis
Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
Antillean Nighthawk Chordeiles gundlachii
Band-tailed Nighthawk Nyctiprogne leucopyga
Nacunda Nighthawk Podager nacunda

Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis
Common Poorwill Phalaenoptilus nuttallii
Jamaican Poorwill Siphonorhis americanus
Least Poorwill Siphonorhis brewsteri
Eared Poorwill Nyctiphrynus mcleodii
Yucatan Poorwill Nyctiphrynus yucatanicus
Ocellated Poorwill Nyctiphrynus ocellatus
Chuck-will`s-widow Caprimulgus carolinensis
Rufous Nightjar Caprimulgus rufus
Greater Antillean Nightjar Caprimulgus cubanensis
Tawny-collared Nightjar Caprimulgus salvini
Yucatan Nightjar Caprimulgus badius
Silky-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus sericocaudatus
Buff-collared Nightjar Caprimulgus ridgwayi
Whip-poor-will Caprimulgus vociferus
Puerto Rican Nightjar Caprimulgus noctitherus
Dusky Nightjar Caprimulgus saturatus
Band-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus longirostris
White-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus cayennensis
White-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus candicans
Spot-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus maculicaudus
Little Nightjar Caprimulgus parvulus

Scrub Nightjar Caprimulgus anthonyi
Cayenne Nightjar Caprimulgus maculosus
Blackish Nightjar Caprimulgus nigrescens
Roraiman Nightjar Caprimulgus whitelyi
Pygmy Nightjar Caprimulgus hirundinaceus
Brown Nightjar Caprimulgus binotatus
Red-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus ruficollis
Grey Nightjar Caprimulgus indicus
Eurasian Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus
Sombre Nightjar Caprimulgus fraenatus
Rufous-cheeked Nightjar Caprimulgus rufigena
Egyptian Nightjar Caprimulgus aegyptius
Sykes`s Nightjar Caprimulgus mahrattensis
Vaurie`s Nightjar Caprimulgus centralasicus
Nubian Nightjar Caprimulgus nubicus
Golden Nightjar Caprimulgus eximius
Madagascar Nightjar Caprimulgus madagascariensis
Large-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus macrurus
Jerdon`s Nightjar Caprimulgus atripennis
Philippine Nightjar Caprimulgus manillensis
Sulawesi Nightjar Caprimulgus celebensis
Donaldson-Smith`s Nightjar Caprimulgus donaldsoni
Black-shouldered Nightjar Caprimulgus nigriscapularis
Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
Itombwe Nightjar Caprimulgus prigoginei
Montane Nightjar Caprimulgus poliocephalus

Ruwenzori Nightjar Caprimulgus ruwenzorii
Indian Nightjar Caprimulgus asiaticus
Swamp Nightjar Caprimulgus natalensis
Plain Nightjar Caprimulgus inornatus
Star-spotted Nightjar Caprimulgus stellatus
Savanna Nightjar Caprimulgus affinis
Freckled Nightjar Caprimulgus tristigma
Bonaparte`s Nightjar Caprimulgus concretus
Salvadori`s Nightjar Caprimulgus pulchellus
Collared Nightjar Caprimulgus enarratus
Bates`s Nightjar Caprimulgus batesi
Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus
Slender-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus clarus
Square-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus fossii
Standard-winged Nightjar Macrodipteryx longipennis
Pennant-winged Nightjar Macrodipteryx vexillarius
Ladder-tailed Nightjar Hydropsalis climacocerca
Scissor-tailed Nightjar Hydropsalis brasiliana
Swallow-tailed Nightjar Uropsalis segmentata
Lyre-tailed Nightjar Uropsalis lyra
Long-trained Nightjar Macropsalis creagra
Sickle-winged Nightjar Eleothreptus anomalus

  useful reading

 

A Guide to Nightjars, Nighthawks, and Their Relatives

by Nigel Cleere & Illustration by Dave Nurney Pica press 1998 Hardback
See: http://www.yale.edu/yup/books/074573.htm
ISBN: 1873403488
Buy this book from NHBS.com

A Sound Guide to Nightjars and Related Nightbirds

Compiled by Richard Ranft. The British Library National Sound Archive. Consultant Nigel Cleere. In case of difficulty in obtaining copies in the U.K. apply to:Pica Press, The Banks, Mountfield, Nr. Robertsbridge, East Sussex TN32 5JY,and in the U.S.A. to: Yale University Press, P.O. Box 209040, New Haven, CT 06520-9040

Nightjars & their Allies

by D T Holyoak [Illustrated by Martin Woodcock] OUP 2001
ISBN: 0198549873
Buy this book from NHBS.com

  trip reports

 

Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you can’t find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page… give them a try!

  other links

 

Pennant-winged Nightjar Macrodipteryx vexillarius

http://members.lycos.nl/KeesBakker/pwnightjar2.htm
[Very good] Image

Antillean Nighthawk Chordeiles gundlachii

http://www.wildflorida.org/bba/anni.htm
The Antillean Nighthawk is a rare but regular summer resident of the Florida Keys and southeastern mainland...

Blackish Nightjar Caprimulgus nigrescens

http://webserv.nhl.nl/~ribot/english/capni_ng.htm
Nightjars are unconspicious brown birds with little brown-yellow stripes and blots on their feathers and some white in their wings throat and tail. They can be seen everywhere in Suriname, but mostly on the savanna and along open places in the forest...

Buff-collared Nightjar Caprimulgus ridgwayi

http://www.wfo-cbrc.org/cbrc/photos/bcni.html
Image

Caprimulgiformes

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/splists/Caprimulgiformescl.html#Aegothelidae
List of all related families with species

Collared Nightjar Caprimulgus enarratus

http://hem.fyristorg.com/nonne/Collared%20Nightjar.html
Image

Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i4200id.html
Separated from all nightjars except nighthawks by the pale patch in the wing...

Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor

http://donb.furfly.net/malheur/birds/nighthawk.html
Some facts and excellent images

Common Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i4190id.html
The white wing patches of the Common Pauraque are similar to the wing patches in nighthawks but note the longer tail, browner upperparts and different call. Other goatsuckers lack the white wing patches and have different calls...

Common poorwill Phalaenoptilus nuttallii

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i4180id.html
Separated from nighthawks by the lack of a pale patch in the wing. Told from other nightjars by small size, wingtips which reach the tip of the short tail at rest, and pale gray coloration. All nightjars are easily identified by their distinctive songs...

Common Poorwill Phalaenoptilus nuttallii

http://i-bird.com/Species/CmnPoorwill.htm
Notes and distribution in the US

Dusky Nightjar Caprimulgus saturatus

http://www.genesis-two.com/originalsite/bird25.html
What are the best months to see me at the GENESIS II lodge in Costa Rica?

Egyptian Nightjar Caprimulgus aegyptius

http://enhg3.4t.com/b/b41/41_09.htm
Nightjars Caprimulgidae are passage migrants in the UAE, with the birds we see here likely to breed in Central Asia, although their range extends from Western Europe across to Far Eastern Russia, Mongolia and even China in suitable habitats. Central Asia probably provides the bulk of the birds that pass through the UAE on their way to wintering areas in Eastern Africa, although we also see the occasional one whose plumage suggests they are of European races. To date, two species have been recorded locally, the Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus and the Egyptian Nightjar Caprimulgus aegyptius, the latter only in the Northern Emirates. Most UAE records are of the former species...

Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis

http://www.naturalia.org/zoo/AN_CIELO/e_succ_fos.html
Image and a few facts

Genus changes in Nightjars and Allies

http://www.ornitaxa.com/SM/GenChange/GeneraNightjars.htm
A review of the taxonomy and systematics of Nightjars

Grey Nightjar Caprimulgus indicus

http://www.haryana-online.com/Fauna/Birds/grey_nightjar.htm
{Excellent} Image

Indian Nightjar Caprimulgus asiaticus

http://www.goldenlandpages.com/birds/10.htm
Image

Itombwe Nightjar Caprimulgus prigoginei

http://home.online.no/~stingray/Itombwe_Nightjar.htm
The Itombwe Nightjar is known from a single female specimen, collected in the Itombwe Mountains in east-central Congo. Location map...

Jamaican Pauraque [Jamaican Poorwill] - Siphonorhis americanus

http://www.irf.org/bameric.htm
Endemic to Jamaica, this rare pauraque is known from very few records, the last of which was in 1859, although there have been some recent unconfirmed reports. Almost nothing has been documented about the ecology of the bird, to the extent that it is still uncertain whether it inhabited tall forest or arid scrub.

Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis

http://i-bird.com/Species/LesserNighthawk.htm
US distribution etc...

Ocellated Poorwill Nyctiphrynus ocellatus

http://www.sub.net.au/~vwspbt01/poorwill.htm
Image etc.

Puerto Rican Nightjar Caprimulgus noctitherus

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Jungle/7751/prnjar.html
The Puertorican Nightjar (Puerto Rican whip-poor-will) is a robin-sized, nocturnal bird. This species is found only on the island of Puerto Rico

Red-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus ruficollis

http://www.eurobirding.co.uk/red_necked_nightjar.HTM
As a breeding bird confined to the Western Palearctic and found in much of Spain (though absent from the north); in southern Portugal and in North-West Africa from central Morocco to northern Tunisia. Fairly common in Iberia but uncommon over much of North African range...

Scissor-tailed Nightjar Hydropsalis brasiliana

http://www.focusonnature.com/Scissor-tailed%20Nightjar.htm
[Poor] Image

Whippoorwill Camprimulgus vociferus

http://www.cesa10.k12.wi.us/Ecosystems/woodlands/birds/whippoorwill.htm
Image & a few facts

White-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus candicans

http://www.arthurgrosset.com/sabirds/white-wingednightjar.html
The White-winged Nightjar is classified as Endangered. It is believed that there are only a few hundred birds left in Brazil and about fifty in Paraguay...

Yucatan Nightjar Caprimulgus badius

http://www.lamanai.com/gal/birds/nightjar.html
Image

Yucatan Nightjar Caprimulgus badius

http://www.neotropicalbirdclub.org/feature/cotinga08/yucatannightjar.html
Yucatan Nightjar, Caprimulgus badius, as its name suggests, is largely endemic to Mexico`s Yucatan Peninsula where it is generally common to fairly common in scrubby and brushy woodland, and forest-edge habitats (1,5). As with many New World nightjars, knowledge of this species` taxonomy, voice and distribution has entailed the unravelling of misconceptions and perpetuated errors...

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