Pale-rumped Swift (Chaetura egregia) | Photos and ID

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Pale-rumped Swift (Chaetura egregia), photo 1 — Photo: David F. Belmonte · CC BY 4.0

Pale-rumped Swift (Chaetura egregia), photo 2 — Photo: Vincent A. Vos · CC BY 4.0

Pale-rumped Swift (Chaetura egregia), photo 3 — Photo: (c) David F. Belmonte, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Pale-rumped Swift (Chaetura egregia), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Vincent A. Vos, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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The pale-rumped swift is about 10.5 cm (4.1 in) long and weighs about 23 g (0.81 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. Their upperparts are black with a bronze gloss and a whitish rump and uppertail coverts. Their underparts are mostly dark, with a pale throat and blackish undertail coverts. Voice: The pale-rumped swift's main vocalizations are "a single-noted 'tsee'...and more complex twittering calls such as 'tsee-titi' or 'titi-tsee-trtr'."

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When to see the Pale-rumped Swift

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Pale-rumped Swift

Regular range

The map shades 5 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Peru Brazil Ecuador Bolivia Colombia

About the Pale-rumped Swift

The pale-rumped swift is a species of bird in subfamily Apodinae of the swift family Apodidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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Easily confused with

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). Ashy-tailed SwiftChaetura andreiAshy-tailed swift is very similar to the widespread Vaux's swift.

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