Donaldson Smith's nightjar

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| image = Journal für Ornithologie (1905) (14746776241).jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Caprimulgus donaldsoni |volume=2016 |page=e.T22689940A93253577 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22689940A93253577.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| genus = Caprimulgus

| species = donaldsoni

| authority = Sharpe, 1895

| synonyms =

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Donaldson Smith's nightjar (Caprimulgus donaldsoni) is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. It was named in honor of the 19th-century American explorer Arthur Donaldson Smith.{{cite book |last1=Beolens |first1=Bo |last2=Watkins |first2=Michael |last3=Grayson |first3=Michael |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals |date=2009 |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore |isbn=978-0-8018-9304-9 |page=383 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jar_DwAAQBAJ |access-date=12 April 2024}}