GREY-RUMPED SWIFT Chaetura cinereiventris
Swifts are almost completely aerial, living most of their life on the wing and touching land only to breed - obviously this makes them extremely hard to photograph!. Grey-rumped is one of two species of Chaetura or "spinetail" swifts, characterised by their short, square tails and long, scythe-shaped wings which give them a bat-like silhouette. Grey-rumped is the least commonly encountered of the two Chaeturas and is found mainly around water sources in humid forest.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE1362PH) Adult drinking, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Lars Hansen February 2007).
VIDEO - (FPAVE1363VI) Flock drinking at dusk, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith August 2006).
Chaetura cinereiventris
1 (FPAVE1364RE) Call of single individual recorded PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith November 2007).
Click the link to hear the call. Longer versions of this call can be downloaded from the Paraguay page of our partner website Xeno-Canto - the largest collection of freely downloadable Neotropical bird calls available online.
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