White-collared Swift (Streptoprocne zonaris)

Other Names (World)
White-collared Swift, Collared Swift, Antillean Cloud Swift, Giant White-collared Swift, Ringed Swift

Family
Apodidae (Swifts)

Size
20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Shaw, 1796)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. From sea-level - 4,350 m.

Range (Guide)

Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (B), Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay (B), Peru, Puerto Rico, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, Venezuela.

Vagrant to Netherlands Antilles, Uruguay (NB).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 500,000 - 4,999,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (25)...)

White-collared Swift (Streptoprocne zonaris) [XC239025]
by John V. Moore from Napo: pass of Cord. de los Guacamayos, Ecuador (flight call, flight calls)

White-collared Swift (Streptoprocne zonaris) [XC564401]
by Mauricio Cuellar Ramirez (@Birding.travel) from Mana Dulce, Cundinamarca, Colombia (flight call)

Subspecies
Recent research has shown that subspecies albicincta is far more restricted in range than previously thought.

The following 9 subspecies are recognised:

mexicana Ridgway, 1910 - Southern Mexico to Belize.
bouchellii Huber, 1923 - Nicaragua to Panama.
pallidifrons (Hartert, 1896) - Greater Antilles and locally in Lesser Antilles (Saba, Grenadines, Grenada).
minor (Lawrence, 1882) - Cordillera of coastal northern Venezuela, recorded to Trinidad.
albicincta (Cabanis, 1862) - Lowland Venezuela (south of Andes and cordilleras), Guyana and possibly Surinam and French Guiana.
subtropicalis Parkes, 1994 - Middle elevations in Andean highlands from M�rida (Venezuela) and Colombia to Peru.
altissima Chapman, 1914 - High elevations of Andes in Colombia and Ecuador.
kuenzeli Niethammer, 1953 - High elevations of Bolivian Andes and north-western Argentina.
zonaris (Shaw, 1796) - Southern Brazilian and Bolivian lowlands, and central and eastern Paraguay.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White-collared Swift (Streptoprocne zonaris) - 10 files

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