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Chestnut-collared Swift

Streptoprocne rutila

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCup nestSmall · 20 g
Chestnut-collared Swift (Streptoprocne rutila), photo 1
Photo: Ryan F. Mandelbaum · CC BY 4.0
Chestnut-collared Swift (Streptoprocne rutila), photo 2
Photo: Paul Hoekman · CC BY 4.0
Chestnut-collared Swift (Streptoprocne rutila), photo 3
Photo: Paul Hoekman · CC BY 4.0
Chestnut-collared Swift (Streptoprocne rutila), photo 4
Photo: RJ Baltierra · CC BY 4.0
Chestnut-collared Swift (Streptoprocne rutila), photo 5
Photo: Anthony Batista · CC BY 4.0
Chestnut-collared Swift (Streptoprocne rutila), photo 6
Photo: Dan Vickers · CC BY 4.0
Chestnut-collared Swift (Streptoprocne rutila), photo 7
Photo: Paul Hoekman · CC BY 4.0
Chestnut-collared Swift (Streptoprocne rutila), photo 8
Photo: Paul Hoekman · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

The chesnut-collared swift is one of the smaller members of genus Streptoprocne. It is 12 to 14 cm (4.7 to 5.5 in) long and weighs about 21 g (0.74 oz). It has a wide slightly notched tail and broad wings. Adult males of the nominate subspecies S. r. rutila have a sooty blackish brown crown, a blackish brown back, slightly paler rump and uppertail coverts, and a sooty blackish brown tail. They have a narrow black patch around the eye and grayish brown cheeks, chin, and throat with some dull rufous feathers mixed in. Voice: One description of the chesnut-collared swift's flight call is "buzzy...like electric crackles or static, occasionally strung into a chatter: bzzzz'tzz'tzz'tzz zz zzzz zzzzz zzzz."

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When to see the Chestnut-collared Swift

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Chestnut-collared Swift

Regular range

The map shades 14 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia Ecuador Costa Rica Peru Mexico Guatemala Honduras Panama Venezuela Bolivia Trinidad & Tobago El Salvador Belize Nicaragua

About the Chestnut-collared Swift

The chestnut-collared swift is a species of bird in subfamily Cypseloidinae of the swift family Apodidae. It is found from Mexico and Trinidad south to Peru and Bolivia.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Biscutate Swift (Streptoprocne biscutata) Biscutate SwiftStreptoprocne biscutataThe biscutate swift is about 22 cm (8.7 in) long and weighs about 115 g (4.1 oz). White-naped Swift (Streptoprocne semicollaris) White-naped SwiftStreptoprocne semicollarisThe white-naped swift is the largest representative of the swift family in the New World and one of the two largest species in the world. Tepui SwiftStreptoprocne phelpsiThe tepui swift is one of the smaller members of genus Streptoprocne.

Side by side: Chestnut-collared Swift vs White-collared Swift

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