Uropsalis is a genus of South American nightjars in the nightjar family Caprimulgidae.
Taxonomy
The genus Uropsalis was introduced in 1915 by the American ornithologist Waldron DeWitt Miller with Hydropsalis lyra Bonaparte, 1850, the lyre-tailed nightjar, as the type species. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek ουρα/oura meaning "tail" and ψαλις/psalis, ψαλιδος/psalidos meaning "pair of scissors" or "shears".
The genus contains two species:
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Scientific name
Common name
Distribution
Uropsalis lyra
Lyre-tailed nightjar
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
Uropsalis segmentata
Swallow-tailed nightjar
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
