Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
White-collared Swift*
Id (Atlas):
Streptoprocne zonaris
Vagrant
Description (10 )
White-collared Swift
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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.
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).
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)... )
Listen to XC239018
White-collared Swift (Streptoprocne zonaris ) [XC239018 ]
by Niels Krabbe from Morona-Santiago: P\u00e1ramo de Matanga, Ecuador (call, calls)
Listen to XC347893
White-collared Swift (Streptoprocne zonaris ) [XC347893 ]
by Martin St-Michel from ACP Amuicha Entza, Zamora, Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador (call, song)
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 Mérida (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:
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