Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor)

Other Names (World)
Common Nighthawk, Booming Nighthawk

Family
Caprimulgidae (Nightjars)

Size
22 - 25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Forster, 1771)

Habitat
Temperate grassland. From sea-level - 2,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada (B), Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre and Miquelon (NB) (P), St Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay (NB), USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (NB).

Vagrant to Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Montenegro, Portugal, Serbia, St Helena, United Kingdom.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 11,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (75)...)

Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) [XC583103]
by Lance A. M. Benner from Lyndhurst, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States (call)

Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) [XC832286]
by Bruce Lagerquist from Ruston, Louisiana, United States (call)

Subspecies
Formerly considered conspecific with Antillean Nighthawk (Chordeiles gundlachii), but the two are sympatric in southern Florida.

Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Nacunda Nighthawk (Chordeiles nacunda).

The following 9 subspecies are recognised:

minor (Forster, 1771) - Most of central and southern Canada south to northern and north-eastern USA. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Nacunda Nighthawk (Chordeiles nacunda).
hesperis Grinnell, 1905 - South-western Canada and western USA.
sennetti Coues, 1888 - Central-southern Canada and north-central USA.
howelli Oberholser, 1914 - West-central and south-central USA.
henryi Cassin, 1855 - South-western USA and central-northern Mexico.
aserriensis Cherrie, 1896 - South-central USA and extreme north-eastern Mexico.
chapmani Coues, 1888 - South-eastern USA.
neotropicalis Selander & Alvarez del Toro, 1955 - Eastern and southern Mexico, and possibly this subspecies in Guatemala.
panamensis Eisenmann, 1962 - Nicaragua south to Panama, and possibly also north to eastern Honduras and Belize.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) - 10 files

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