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The Antillean palm swift is 9 to 11 cm (3.5 to 4.3 in) long and weighs about 9 to 11 g (0.32 to 0.39 oz). It has long narrow wings and a medium length forked tail. The sexes are alike. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a dark sooty brown crown and nape. Their back, a narrow center strip of the rump, uppertail coverts, and tail are sooty black to black. The sides of their rump are white. Their wings are sooty blackish with pale edges on the flight feathers. Most of their face is grayish brown. Voice: The Antillean palm swift's flight call is described as "noisy...an almost constant, weak, twittering, tooee-tooee".
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When to see the Antillean Palm Swift
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Antillean Palm Swift
The map shades 6 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, Cayman Islands.
About the Antillean Palm Swift
The Antillean palm swift is a species of bird in subfamily Apodinae of the swift family Apodidae. It is found on the Caribbean islands of Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola.
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Easily confused with
Fork-tailed Palm SwiftTachornis squamataThe fork-tailed palm swift is about 13 cm (5.1 in) long and weighs 9 to 13.6 g (0.32 to 0.48 oz).
Pygmy Palm SwiftTachornis furcataThe pygmy palm swift is about 10 cm (3.9 in) long.
Side by side: Antillean Palm Swift vs Fork-tailed Palm Swift
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