Tschudi's nightjar
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Species: | S. decussata
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Systellura decussata (Tschudi, 1844)
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Tschudi's nightjar or lesser band-winged nightjar (Systellura decussata) is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family in the genus Systellura. It is found in western Peru and northern Chile. Until 2016, it was considered a subspecies of the band-winged nightjar.
References
- Cleere, N. 2010. Nightjars: potoos, frogmouths, Oilbird and owlet-nightjars of the world. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
- Sigurdsson, S. and J. Cracraft. 2014. Deciphering the diversity and history of New World nightjars (Aves: Caprimulgidae) using molecular phylogenetics. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170: 506-545.