Strisores

Strisores; Temporal range: ; Early Eocene - Holocene, Possibly an earlier origin based on molecular clock
	Common nighthawk, Chordeiles minor; (Caprimulgidae)
	Male rufous hummingbird,; Selasphorus rufus (Trochilidae)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Passerea
Clade:	Strisores; Cabanis, 1847
Orders
	Traditional Two Orders: Apodiformes; Caprimulgiformes; ; Single Order: Caprimulgiformes; ; Multiple Orders: Caprimulgiformes; Vanescaves Sedentaves; Letornithes; ; ;

Strisores (/straɪˈsoʊriːz/ stry-SOH-reez), sometimes called nightbirds, is a clade of birds that includes the living families and orders Caprimulgidae (nightjars, nighthawks and allies), Nyctibiidae (potoos), Steatornithidae (oilbirds), Podargidae (frogmouths), Apodiformes (swifts and hummingbirds), as well as the Aegotheliformes (owlet-nightjars) whose distinctness was only recently realized. The Apodiformes (which include the "Trochiliformes" of the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy) and the Aegotheliformes form the Daedalornithes.

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