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Flight
Photo © by Thibaud
Pumarinri Lodge, San Martín, Peru, 13 January 2021

Chaetura egregia

Identification

10.5 cm/4 inches - 23 gram/8 ounces

• Small body
  
• Short tail
  
• Noticeable shape to head
  
• Wing hooked near end
  
• Body is dark
  
• Throat is somewhat light
  
• Light rump

Distribution

Eastern Ecuador to Eastern Peru, Northern Bolivia and Western Amazonian Brazil

Taxonomy

Monotypic

Habitat

Tropical evergreen forest in lowlands to 1100 meters/3600 feet

Found from lowlands to Eastern Andean slope in Ecuador at 200 meters/650 feet to 1000 meters/3200 feet elevation

Found in humid forest and more open areas in Northern Peru at 1050 meter/3440 feet elevations.

Behaviour

Known to often feed with groups of other swift species.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Chantler, P. and P. F. D. Boesman (2020). Pale-rumped Swift (Chaetura egregia), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.parswi1.01

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Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Pale-rumped Swift. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 16 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Pale-rumped_Swift

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