Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Caprimulgidae
Genus
Chordeiles
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Least Nighthawk Chordeiles pusillus

Dominique Hellmich
Version: 1.0 — Published June 13, 2014

References

Introduction

BirdLife International. 2014. Species factsheet: Least Nighthawk Chordeiles pusillus. Downloaded from BirdLife International on 10 May 2014.

Cleere, N. 1998. Nightjars. A guide to the nightjars, nighthawks, and their relatives. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut.

Dickerman, R.W. 1988. A review of the Least Nighthawk Chordeiles pusillus.
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Dunning, J.B., Jr. 2008. CRC handbook of avian body masses. Second edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

Friedmann, H. 1948. Birds collected by the National Geographic Society's expeditions to northern Brazil and southern Venezuela. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 97: 373-569.

Friedmann, H., and F.D. Smith, Jr. 1950. A contribution to the ornithology of northeastern Venezuela. Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum 100: 411-538.

Gould, J. 1861. Description of a new species in the family Caprimulgidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London [1861]: 182.

Han, K.L., M.B. Robbins, and M.J. Braun. 2010. A multi-gene estimate of phylogeny in the nightjars and nighthawks (Caprimulgidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 443–453.

Hellmayr, C.E. 1908. An account of the birds collected by Mons. G. A. Baer in the State of Goyaz, Brazil. Novitates Zoologicae 15: 13-102.

Hilty, S.L. 2003. Birds of Venezuela. Second edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Hilty, S.L., and W.L. Brown. 1986. A guide to the birds of Colombia. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Kirwan, G.M., J. Mazar Barnett, J., M. Ferreira de Vasconcelos, M.A. Raposo, S.D. Neto, and I. Roesler. 2004. Further comments on the avifauna of the middle São Francisco Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club
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Krauczuk, E.P. 2000. Presencia de Chordeiles pusillus como nidificante en la provinciae de Misiones, Argentina. Ornitología Neotropical 11: 85-86.

Oates, E.W. 1903. Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume 3. British Museum (Natural History), London.

Parker, T.A., III, D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick. 1996. Ecological and distributional databases. Pages 113-436 in D.F. Stotz, J.W. Fitzpatrick, T.A. Parker III, and D.K. Moskovits, Neotropical birds: ecology and conservation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Pinto, and Camargo. 1957.

Robbins, M.B., M.J., Braun, and D.W. Finch. 2004. Avifauna of the Guyana southern Rupununi, with comparisons of other savannas of northern South America. Ornitología Neotropical 15: 173-200.

Schubart, O., A.C. Aguirre, and H. Sick. 1965. Contribuição para conhecimento da alimentação das aves brasileiras. Arquivos de Zoologia 12: 95-249.

Sick, H. 1997 Ornitologia Brasileira. Editora Nova Fronteira, Rio de Janeiro.

Zimmer, J.T., and W.H. Phelps. 1947. Seven new subspecies of birds from Venezuela and Brazil. American Museum Novitates number 1338.

Recommended Citation

Hellmich, D. (2014). Least Nighthawk (Chordeiles pusillus), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.leanig1.01