Chordeiles
Chordeiles is a New World genus of nighthawks in the nightjar family Caprimulgidae.
Taxonomy
The genus Chordeiles was introduced in 1832 by the English zoologist William Swainson with Caprimulgus virginianus Gmelin, JF, 1789, as the type species. This is a junior synonym of Camprimulgus minor Forster, JR, 1771, the common nighthawk. The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek χορδη/khordē meaning "chord" and δειλη/deilē meaning "evening".The genus contains the following six species:
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
| Chordeiles pusillus | Least nighthawk | northern South America | |
| Chordeiles rupestris | Sand-coloured nighthawk | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela | |
| Chordeiles minor | Common nighthawk | South America to northern North America. | |
| Chordeiles acutipennis | Lesser nighthawk | United States through South America | |
| Chordeiles gundlachii | Antillean nighthawk | the Greater Antilles, the Bahamas and the Florida Keys in the United States. | |
| Chordeiles nacunda | Nacunda nighthawk | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela |