Caprimulgidae
Caprimulgidae (a caprimulgo) sunt nocturnae vel crepusculares magnitudinis mediae aves ordinis Caprimulgiformium, quarum proprietates notabiles sunt alae longae, crura brevia, rostra brevissima. Contra apertam nominis significationem, earum victus maximi momenti in insectis consistit. 

Caprimulgidae in omne orbe terrarum praeter Novam Zelandiam et aliquot insulas Oceanicas inveniuntur. Impigrae sunt vesperi primaque luce, vel etiam nocte. Saepissime in solo nidificant. Plerumque lepidopteris aliisque magnis insectis volantibus vescuntur.

Plurimis sunt pedes parvi, ambulando haud bene adhibiti, atque alae longae et acutae. Earum plumae cryptice colorantur, ut corticis vel foliorum similes videantur. Nonnullae species secundum, non trans, ramos consident, ut sese diu melius celent.

Phalaenoptilus nuttallii unica avis est, quia hibernat, iners, temperatura corporis hebdomades atque adeo menses multo imminuta; aliae caprimulgidae quoque torpidae breviora tempora fieri possunt.

Caprimulgidae unum aut duo ova maculata recte in solum nudum pariunt. Subiciuntur caprimulgidae, periculo imminente, ova pullosque a nido in ore movere. Quod identidem in libris ornithologicis dicitur, sed investigationes academicae indicia talis consuetudinis quae refutari non possunt haud inveniunt.

Systematica

 †Ventivorus Mourer-Chauviré 1988
 Subfamilia Eurostopodinae
 Genus Eurostopodus (7 species)
 Genus Lyncornis (2 species)
 Subfamilia Caprimulginae (caprimulgudae usitatae)
 Genus Gactornis
 Genus Nyctipolus – (2 species)
 Genus Nyctidromus – (2 species)
 Genus Hydropsalis – (4 species)
 Genus Siphonorhis – (2 species)
 Genus Nyctiphrynus – (4 species)
 Genus Phalaenoptilus
 Genus Antrostomus – (12 species)
 Genus Caprimulgus – (40 species, inter quas Caprimulgus europaeus)
 Genus Setopagis – (4 species) 
 Genus Uropsalis – (2 species)
 Genus Macropsalis
 Genus Eleothreptus – (2 species)
 Genus Systellura – (2 species)
 Subfamilia Chordeilinae
 Genus Chordeiles (6 species)
 Genus Nyctiprogne (2 species)
 Genus Lurocalis (2 species)

Pinacotheca

Notae

Bibliographia
Han, K.-L., M. B. Robbins, et M. J. Braun. 2010. "A multi-gene estimate of phylogeny in the nightjars and nighthawks (Caprimulgidae)." Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 55: 443–53.
Holyoak, D. T. 2001. Nightjars and Their Allies. Oconiae: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-854987-3.
Jackson, H. D. 1985. "Commentary and Observations on the Alleged Transportation of Eggs and Young by Caprimulgids." Wilson Bulletin 97 (3): 381–85. PDF.
Jackson, H. D. 2007. "A review of the evidence for the translocation of eggs and young by nightjars (Caprimulgidae)." Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 78 (3): 561–72. doi:10.2989/OSTRICH.2007.78.3.2.313.
Lane. J. E., R. M. Brigham, et D. L. Swanson. 2004. "Daily torpor in free-ranging whip-poor-wills (Caprimulgus vociferus)." Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 77 (2): 297–304. PMID 15095249. doi:10.1086/380210.
Perrins, Christopher M., ed. 2004. Die BLV-Enzyklopädie Vögel der Welt: Aus dem Englischen von Einhard Bezzel. Monaci, Vindobonae, Turici: BLV. ISBN 978-3-405-16682-3. [The New Encyclopedia of Birds. Oxoniae: Oxford University Press, 2003.]

Nexus externi

Pelliculae caprimulgidarum. Internet Bird Collection.
Soni caprimulgidarum. Xeno-canto.org.

Familiae animalium
Taxa Vigors
Taxa 1825