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Jamaican poorwill
Illustration by George Edward Lodge, 1907
Conservation status
Jamaican poorwill
Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Caprimulgiformes
Family: Caprimulgidae
Genus: Siphonorhis
Species:
S. americana
Binomial name
Siphonorhis americana
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[2]
  • Caprimulgus americanus Linnaeus, 1758

The Jamaican poorwill (Siphonorhis americana), also known as the Jamaican pauraque or Jamaican least pauraque, is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. It is (or was) endemic to Jamaica and has not been recorded since 1860.[3][4]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2020). "Jamaican Poorwill Siphonorhis americana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22689738A178420953. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22689738A178420953.en. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Siphonorhis americana". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  3. ^ Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P. (July 2021). "IOC World Bird List (v 11.2)". Retrieved July 14, 2021.
  4. ^ Dreelin, A. (2020). Jamaican Pauraque (Siphonorhis americana), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.jampau.01 retrieved October 13, 2021

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