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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...
- 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...
- owlet-nightjars are, apparently,
convergent with the closely-related
Caprimulgiformes (nightjars),
which form a
clade known as
Cypselomorphae together with...
- This list of
fictional birds is
subsidiary to the list of
fictional animals. Ducks,
penguins and
birds of prey are not
included here, and are
listed separately...
- White-winged
cotinga Spotted ground thrush There are 23
species in the
order Caprimulgiformes ****essed as endangered.
Venezuelan sylph Mangrove hummingbird Perija...
