Gray-rumped Swift

Gray-rumped Swift

Taxobox
name = Gray-rumped Swift
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Apodiformes
familia = Apodidae
genus = "Chaetura"
species = "C. cinereiventris"
binomial = "Chaetura cinereiventris"
binomial_authority = (Sclater, 1862)

The Gray-rumped Swift, "Chaetura cinereiventris", is a small swift.

This species breeds in hill forests from Nicaragua south to Peru, Brazil and northern Argentina, and Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago. The nest is a half saucer of twigs glued to the inside of a tree hole, chimney or similar shaded location with saliva.

Gray-rumped Swift is 11.5 cm long and weighs 15 g. The upperparts are black with a grey triangular band across the rump, and the underparts are slate grey. It has a long black-grey tail.

Gray-rumped Swift feeds in flight on flying insects. It is often low over roads or clearings in the morning or evening, rising high above the forest, often with other swifts, in the middle of the day.

Gray-rumped Swift has a chittering call.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

* "Swifts" by Chantler and Driessens, ISBN 1-873403-83-6
* "Birds of Venezuela" by Hilty, ISBN 0-7136-6418-5
*cite book
last = ffrench
first = Richard
title = A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
edition = 2nd edition
year = 1991
publisher = Comstock Publishing
isbn = 0-8014-9792-2


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