Grey-rumped Swift (Chaetura cinereiventris) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Grey-rumped Swift (Chaetura cinereiventris), photo 1 — Photo: er-birds · CC BY 4.0

Grey-rumped Swift (Chaetura cinereiventris), photo 2 — Photo: er-birds · CC BY 4.0

Grey-rumped Swift (Chaetura cinereiventris), photo 3 — Photo: Anthony Batista · CC BY 4.0

Grey-rumped Swift (Chaetura cinereiventris), photo 4 — Photo: Anthony Batista · CC BY 4.0

Grey-rumped Swift (Chaetura cinereiventris), photo 5 — Photo: yongestation · CC BY 4.0

Grey-rumped Swift (Chaetura cinereiventris), photo 6 — Photo: er-birds · CC BY 4.0

Grey-rumped Swift (Chaetura cinereiventris), photo 7 — Photo: er-birds · CC BY 4.0

Grey-rumped Swift (Chaetura cinereiventris), photo 8 — Photo: er-birds · CC BY 4.0

Grey-rumped Swift (Chaetura cinereiventris), photo 9 — Photo: er-birds · CC BY 4.0

Grey-rumped Swift (Chaetura cinereiventris), photo 10 — Photo: Anthony Batista · CC BY 4.0

What the Grey-rumped Swift sounds like

Sonogram of the Grey-rumped Swift: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Pichincha: Río Guaycuyacu, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Napo: km 11.6 Narupa-Loreto road, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The grey-rumped swift is about 10.5 cm (4.1 in) long and weighs about 17 g (0.60 oz). It has a protruding head, a short square tail, and wings that bulge in the middle and somewhat hook at the end. The sexes are alike. Adults of the nominate subspecies have mostly glossy black upperparts with a wide gray rump and uppertail coverts. Their underparts are a lighter gray than the rump, though darker on the undertail coverts. Juveniles are essentially the same as adults with the addition of pale fringes to many of the wing feathers. Subspecies C. c. Voice: The principal vocalizations of the grey-rumped swift's nominate subspecies are "a bright repeated short 'tsip'" and a "series of 3–4 slightly downslurred burry drawn-out notes 'trrreeew-trrreeew-trrreeew'." The other subspecies' vocalizations vary but are similar to them.

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When to see the Grey-rumped Swift

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

Where to see the Grey-rumped Swift

Regular range

The map shades 16 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Colombia Trinidad & Tobago Peru Argentina Venezuela Panama Grenada Paraguay Guyana Bolivia Nicaragua Honduras St. Vincent & Grenadines

About the Grey-rumped Swift

The grey-rumped swift or gray-rumped swift is a species of bird in subfamily Apodinae of the swift family Apodidae. It is found in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama; in every mainland South American country except Chile, French Guiana, Suriname, and Uruguay; in Trinidad and Tobago; and on Grenada.

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Easily confused with

Sick's SwiftChaetura meridionalisThe upperparts dark smoky brown.

Short-tailed SwiftChaetura brachyuraThe short-tailed swift is about 10.5 cm long, and weighs 20 g.

Band-rumped SwiftChaetura spinicaudusThe band-rumped swift is 10.5 to 12.6 cm (4.1 to 5.0 in) long and weighs 13.8 to 18.5 g (0.49 to 0.65 oz).

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