Common Nighthawk © birdscolombia.com

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

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.

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