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== Discovery == While limited information is known regarding the discovery of nighthawks, it is believed that the term "nighthawk", first recorded in the [[King James Bible]] of 1611, was originally a local name in England for the [[European nightjar]].<ref name="OEDnight2">{{Cite OED|Nighthawk}}</ref> Its use in the Americas to refer to members of the genus ''Chordeiles'' and related genera was first recorded in 1778 when John Cassin, a renowned ornithologist responsible for the establishment of the Delaware County Institute of Science, established the classification.<ref name="OEDnight2" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-28 |title=The People Behind the Birds Named for People: John Cassin |url=https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/the-people-behind-the-birds-named-for-people-john-cassin/ |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=All About Birds |language=en-US}}</ref> Fossil records indicate that specimens later identified to be the common nighthawks (''Chordeiles minor'') excavated in the Southwestern US could be traced back as far as 400,000 years (during the [[Pleistocene|Pleistocene era]]) meaning that the subfamily has been an entrenched component of new world ecology for a significant duration of time.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Common Nighthawk Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology |url=https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Nighthawk/overview#:~:text=Many%20Late%20Pleistocene%20fossils%20of,and%20from%20Wyoming%20to%20Texas. |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=www.allaboutbirds.org |language=en}}</ref>
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