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Ladder-tailed Nightjar Hydropsalis climacocerca Scientific name definitions

Maria G. Smith
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated February 6, 2015

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Distribution of the Ladder-tailed Nightjar - Range Map
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Distribution of the Ladder-tailed Nightjar

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Recommended Citation

Smith, M. G. (2020). Ladder-tailed Nightjar (Hydropsalis climacocerca), 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.latnig1.01
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