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The Costa Rican swift is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long. The sexes are alike. Their head is dusky. Their upperparts are mostly sooty black with a blue gloss and a pale grayish rump and dull black uppertail coverts. Their throat and breast are pale grayish. Voice: The Costa Rican swift makes "high-pitched calls such as single 'weet', 'tsew' or 'tsee' notes" and usually combines them with "longer twittering series such as 'titititititititi' or 'titititrrrr'."
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When to see the Costa Rican Swift
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Costa Rican Swift
The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Costa Rican Swift
The Costa Rican swift is a species of bird in subfamily Apodinae of the swift family Apodidae. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama.
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Easily confused with
Pale-rumped SwiftChaetura egregiaThe pale-rumped swift is about 10.5 cm (4.1 in) long and weighs about 23 g (0.81 oz).
Chapman's SwiftChaetura chapmaniChapman's swift is 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 20.75 to 28 g (0.73 to 0.99 oz).
Lesser Antillean SwiftChaetura martinicaThe Lesser Antillean swift is 10.5 to 11 cm (4.1 to 4.3 in) long and weighs an average of 12.7 g (0.45 oz).
Side by side: Band-rumped Swift vs Costa Rican Swift · Costa Rican Swift vs Pale-rumped Swift
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