Short-tailed Swift (Chaetura brachyura)

Family
Apodidae (Swifts)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Jardine, 1846)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, heavily degraded former forest. From sea-level - 1,050 m.

Range (Guide)

Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Montserrat, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Vagrant to Virgin Islands (U.S.).

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

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (26)...)

Short-tailed Swift (Chaetura brachyura) [XC816852]
by John V. Moore from Aragua\u00edna, Tocantins, Brazil (flight call)

Short-tailed Swift (Chaetura brachyura) [XC446723]
by Dante Buzzetti from Cujubim, Rond\u00f4nia, Brazil (flight call)

Subspecies
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

brachyura (Jardine, 1846) - Panama east to the Guianas and Trinidad, south to west-central Brazil and northern Bolivia.
praevelox Bangs & Penard, TE, 1918 - Grenada, St Vincent and Tobago.
ocypetes Zimmer, JT, 1953 - South-western Ecuador and extreme north-western Peru.
cinereocauda (Cassin, 1850) - North-central Brazil.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Short-tailed Swift (Chaetura brachyura) - 10 files

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