Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Caprimulgidae
Genus
Chordeiles
 
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SPECIES

Sand-colored Nighthawk Chordeiles rupestris

Nichole Whyland
Version: 1.0 — Published April 10, 2015

References

Introduction

BirdLife International. 2014. Species factsheet: Sand-colored Nighthawk Chordeiles rupestris. Downloaded from BirdLife International.

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Cleere, N. 2010. Nightjars, potoos, frogmouths, Oilbird and owlet-nightjars of the world. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

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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.

Groom, M.J. 1992. Sand-colored Nighthawks parasitize the atipredator behavior of three nesting bird species. Ecology 73: 785-793.

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.

Hennessey, B., S.K. Herzog, and F. Sagot. 2003. Lista anotada de las aves de Bolivia. Asociación Armonia, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

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.

Holyoak, D. 2001. Nightjars and their allies: the Caprimulgiformes. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.

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Oberholser, H.C. 1914. A monograph of the genus Chordeiles Swainson, type of a new family of goatsuckers. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 86.

Olivares, A. 1962. Aves de la region sur de la Sierra de la Macarena, Meta, Colombia. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias 11: 305-346.

O'Neill, J.P. 1974. The birds of Balta, a Peruvian dry tropical forest locality, with an analysis of their origins and ecological relationships. Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Ridgely, R.S., and P.J. Greenfield. 2001a. The birds of Ecuador: status, distribution, and taxonomy. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.

Ridgely, R.S., and P.J. Greenfield. 2001b. The birds of Ecuador: field guide. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.

Robinson, S.K. 1994. Habitat selection and foraging ecology of raptors in Amazonian Peru. Biotropica 26: 443-458.

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

Schulenberg, T.S., D.F. Stotz, D.F. Lane, J.P. O’Neill, and T.A. Parker III. 2010. Birds of Peru. Revised and updated edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Sick, H. 1950. Contribuição ao conhecimento da ecologia de Chordeiles rupestris (Spix) (Caprimulgidae, Aves). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 10: 295-306.

Sick, H. 1993. Birds in Brazil: a natural history. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

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.

Walker, B., D.F. Stotz, T. Pequeño, and J.W. Fitzpatrick. 2006. Birds of the Manu Biosphere Reserve. Pages 23–49 in B.D. Patterson, D.F. Stotz, and S. Solari (editors), Mammals and Birds of the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru. Fieldiana: Zoology, new series, number 110.

Whittaker, A. 2004. Noteworthy ornithological records from Rondônia, Brazil, including a first country record, comments on austral migration, life history, taxonomy and distribution, with relevant data from neighbouring states, and a first record for Bolivia. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 124: 239-271.

Recommended Citation

Whyland, N. (2015). Sand-colored Nighthawk (Chordeiles rupestris), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.sacnig1.01