Chordeiles

Chordeiles is a New World genus of nighthawks in the nightjar family Caprimulgidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Chordeiles was introduced in 1832 by the English zoologist William Swainson with Caprimulgus virginianus Gmelin, JF, 1789, as the type species. This is a junior synonym of Camprimulgus minor Forster, JR, 1771, the common nighthawk. The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek χορδη/khordē meaning "chord" and δειλη/deilē meaning "evening".

The genus contains the following six species:

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
File:Bacurauzinho.jpg	Chordeiles pusillus	Least nighthawk	northern South America
File:Chordeiles rupestris -Ucayali Region, Peru-8 (cropped).jpg	Chordeiles rupestris	Sand-coloured nighthawk	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
File:Common Nighthawk (14428313550).jpg	Chordeiles minor	Common nighthawk	South America to northern North America.
File:Lesser Nighthawk Sleeping SPI.jpg	Chordeiles acutipennis	Lesser nighthawk	United States through South America
File:Antillean Nighthawk (Chordeiles gundlachii); with distinctive white patch, resting in Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge, Puerto Rico.JPG	Chordeiles gundlachii	Antillean nighthawk	the Greater Antilles, the Bahamas and the Florida Keys in the United States.
File:Nacunda nighthawk.jpg	Chordeiles nacunda	Nacunda nighthawk	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela

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