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alongside nightjars in the
Caprimulgiformes. In 2021, the
International Ornithological Congress redefined the
Caprimulgiformes as only
applying to nightjars...
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classified in the
order Caprimulgiformes,
along with all
other members of Strisores.
Before that, it was part of a
paraphyletic Caprimulgiformes consisting of the...
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morphology and
molecular phylogenomics demonstrated that the
order Caprimulgiformes as had been used for much of the 20th
century (oilbirds, potoos, nightjars...
- The
relationship between the owlet-nightjars and the (traditional)
Caprimulgiformes has long been
controversial and
obscure and
remains so today: in the...
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Nyctibiidae was
formerly included with the
nightjars in the
order Caprimulgiformes but is now
placed in a
separate order, Nyctibiiformes.
There are seven...
- Late
Quaternary prehistoric birds are
avian taxa that
became extinct during the Late Quaternary – the Late
Pleistocene or
Early Holocene – and
before recorded...
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Island gigantism, or
insular gigantism, is a
biological phenomenon in
which the size of an
animal species isolated on an
island increases dramatically...
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Extinct in the wild (EW): 5
species Critically endangered (CR): 223
species Endangered (EN): 460
species Vulnerable (VU): 798
species Near threatened...
- by both adults. The
chicks can walk soon
after hatching. The
order Caprimulgiformes contains several families of
nocturnal insectivores,
these are the...
- List of bird
genera concerns the
chordata class of aves or birds,
characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the
laying of hard-s****ed eggs, and...
