Caprimulgiformes (Frogmouths, Nightjars, Oilbirds, Owlet-nightjars and Potoos)
Family: Aegothelidae (Owlet-nightjars)
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
| Aegotheles bennetii terborghi | Diamond, 1967 | Karimui owlet-nightjar | - | Karimui Basin, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea | Rediscovered | Access |
| Aegotheles novaezealandiae | Scarlett, 1968 | Owlet-nightjar | pre-1280 AD | New Zealand (both major islands, plus D'Urville Island) | Extinct | Access |
| Aegotheles savesi | Layard & Layard, 1881 | Enigmatic owlet-nightjar, New Caledonian owlet-nightjar | 1880 | New Caledonia | Missing | Access |
| Aegotheles tatei | Pratt, 2000 | Spangled owlet-nightjar | - | Papua New Guinea | Missing | Access |
Family: Caprimulgidae (Nightjars)
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
| Antrostomus noctitherus | (Wetmore, 1919) | Puerto Rican Nightjar, Puerto Rican Whip-poor-will | - | Puerto Rico | Rediscovered | Access |
| Caprimulgus centralasicus | Vaurie, 1960 | Vaurie's nightjar | pre-1961 | Xinjiang, China | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
| Caprimulgus piurensis | Campbell, 1979 | - | Late Pleistocene | South America | Extinct | Access |
| Caprimulgus prigoginei | Louette, 1990 | Itombwe Nightjar; Prigogine's Nightjar | August 1955 | Itombwe Mountains, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo | Missing | Access |
| Caprimulgus solala | Safford, Ash, Duckworth, Telfer & Zewdie, 1995 | Nechisar nightjar | - | Nechisar National Park, Ethiopia | Rediscovered | Access |
| Eurostopodus diabolicus | Stresemann, 1931 | Heinrich's nightjar, Diabolical nightjar, Satanic nightjar, Sulawesi eared-nightjar, Kalabat Volcano nightjar | - | Bolaang Mongondow, North Sulawesi, Indonesia | Rediscovered | Access |
| Eurostopodus exul | Mayr, 1941 | White-throated nightjar | 21 August 1939 | Tao, New Caledonia (northwestern) | Missing | Access |
| Setopagis maculosa | (Todd, 1920) | Cayenne nightjar | 1917 | French Guiana | Missing | Access |
| Siphonorhis americana | Linnaeus, 1758 | Jamaican pauraque, Jamaican pauraqué, Jamaican poorwill | 1860 | Jamaica | Missing | Access |
| Siphonorhis brewsteri brewsteri | (Chapman, 1917) | Least poorwill | - | Dominican Republic & Haiti, Hispaniola | Rediscovered | Access |
| Siphonorhis daiquiri | Olson, 1985 | Cuban Siphonorhis, Cuban pauraque, Torico Cubano | Holocene | Cuba | Extinct | Access |
| CAPRIMULGIDAE sp. nov. 'Bahamas' | - | Late Pleistocene | New Providence, Bahamas | Extinct | Access |
Family: Nyctibiidae (Potoos)
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
| Nyctibius leucopterus | (Wied, 1821) | White-winged potoo | - | Brazil, Guyana and Peru | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Podargidae (Frogmouths)
—No subordinate taxa
Family: Steatornithidae (Oilbird)
—No subordinate taxa