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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Peter Kovalik" data-source="post: 2850095" data-attributes="member: 80630"><a href="http://jboyd.net/Taxo/changes.html" target="_blank">TiF Update October 16</a>:I made some adjustments to the Nightjars and Nighthawks based on Sigurdsson (2013). He confirmed that the Setopagis did not form a clade (also suggested by Han et al., 2010). As a result, Setopagis, Eleothreptus, Systellura, and Macropsalis have been submerged into Hydropsalis. Further, three species have been split from the Band-winged Nightjar, Hydropsalis longirostris. They include Tschudi's Nightjar, Hydropsalis decussata, and Tepui Nightjar, Hydropsalis roraimae, both also advocated by Cleere (2010), and Rufous-naped Nightjar, Hydropsalis ruficervix. Sigurdsson (2013) has identified several other taxa that seem to be phylogenetic species (including subspecies of the Lesser Nighthawk and Pauraque). I'm not yet convinced they are biological species and have not included them here.</blockquote>