Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Caprimulgidae
Genus
Nyctipolus
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
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Pygmy Nightjar Nyctipolus hirundinaceus

Andrea Alfano
Version: 1.0 — Published December 19, 2014

References

Introduction

BirdLife International. 2014. Species factsheet: Pygmy Nightjar Nyctipolus hirundinaceus. Downloaded from BirdLife International on 20 April 2014.

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Cory, C.B. 1917. Notes on little known species of South American bird with descriptions of new subspecies. Field Museum of Natural History Zoological Series 12: 3-7.

Dickinson, E.C. (editor). 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world. Third edition. Princeton University Press, New Jersey.

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. 1929. A contribution to the ornithology of northeastern Brazil. Field Museum of Natural History Zoological Series 12: 235-501.

Ingels, J., J. Mazar Barnett, J., M.F. de Vasconcelos, and H.D. Jackson. 2014. The habitat preference of the endemic Pygmy Nightjar Nyctipolus hirundinaceus (Caprimulgidae) of Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 22: 210–214.

Kirwan, G.M., J. Mazar Barnett, M.F. de Vasconcelos, M.A. Raposo, S. D’Angelo Neto, and I. Roesler. 2003. Further comments on the avifauna of the middle São Francisco Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 124: 207-220.

Mazar Barnett, J., J. Ingels, A.L. Roos, J.L.G. de Lima, and L.N. Naka. 2014. Observations on the breeding biology of the Pygmy Nightjar Nyctipolus hirundinaceus in the Caatinga of Bahia and Ceará, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 22: 201–209.

Olmos, F. 1993. Birds of Serra da Capivara National Park, in the "caatinga" of northeastern Brazil. Bird Conservation International 3: 21-36.

van Perlo, B. 2009. A field guide to the birds of Brazil. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.

Peters, J.L. 1940. Check-list of birds of the world. Volume IV. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ribon, R. 1995. Nova subspécie de Caprimulgus (Linnaeus) (Aves, Caprimulgidae) do Espírito Santo, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 12: 333-337.

Sigurdsson, S., and J. Cracraft. 2014. Deciphering the diversity and history of New World nightjars (Aves: Caprimulgidae) using molecular phylogenetics. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170: 506-545.

Vasconcelos, M.F. de, and L.V. Lins. 1998. First records of Caprimulgus hirundinaceus vielliardi for Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Ararajuba 6: 134-135.

Recommended Citation

Alfano, A. (2014). Pygmy Nightjar (Nyctipolus hirundinaceus), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.pygnig1.01
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