Birds of Guyana

    APODIFORMES: Apodidae (Swifts)  
Genus: Chaetura (5 species, 11 worldwide)


Short-tailed Swift
Short-tailed Swift (Chaetura brachyura brachyura)
Mocagua, Amazonas, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Small T-shaped swift with short buff-colored back end. Back and back of wings blue-black. Seen in groups of 1000. Descends to nest in hollow dead palms.

Chapman's Swift
Chapman's Swift (Chaetura chapmani)
Guyana  
   
Photograph by Dave Curtis     Copyright and usage info

A small brown swift with contrasting browns on top half (head and mantle darker). Compare to Vaux's Swift and Chimney Swift. Chapman's Swift as recently lumped with Amazonian Swift of the western Amazon basin.

Grey-rumped Swift
Grey-rumped Swift (Chaetura cinereiventris)
Inírida, Guainía, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Robert Lockett   © All Rights Reserved.

Uniformly grey from below with light grey rump, and darker on back. Note wing shape and square tail.

Sick's Swift
Sick's Swift (Chaetura meridionalis)
Pousada Oikos (Josiél Briet), São Paulo, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Matt Grube   © All Rights Reserved.

Austral migrant from east central South America to north South America. Note uniform brown and short square tail.

Band-rumped Swift
Band-rumped Swift (Chaetura spinicaudus spinicaudus)
Manuas, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Cameron Rutt   © All Rights Reserved.



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