''Chordeiles'' is a New World genus of

nighthawk The nighthawk is a nocturnal bird of the subfamily Chordeilinae, within the nightjar family, Caprimulgidae, native to the western hemisphere. The term "nighthawk", first recorded in the King James Bible of 1611, was originally a local name i ...

s in the family Caprimulgidae. It contains the following species: The genus name ''Chordeiles'' is from

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...

''khoreia'', a dance with music, and ''deile'', "evening".

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Bird genera * Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{caprimulgiformes-stub