White-tipped Swift - BirdForum Opus

Ssp. montivagus ; Female : Dorsal
Photo by Stanley Jones
Tarapoto, San Martin, Peru, December 2016

Aeronautes montivagus

Identification

13 cm (5 in)

• Broad inner wing
• Pointed outer wing

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Female, Subspecies montivagus : Ventral
Photo by Stanley Jones
Tarapoto, San Martin, Peru, December 2016

There are 2 subspecies^[1]:

• A. m. montivagus:

• Locally in mountains of Colombia to northern Venezuela and western Bolivia

• A. m. tatei:

• Tepuis of southern Venezuela and extreme northern Brazil; sight records from Guyana and Suriname presumably also refer to this subspecies

Habitat

Mountainous evergreen forests, secondary and lowland evergreen forests.

Behaviour

Diet

Their main diet consists of flies and other flying insects, such as bees and wasps.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved February 2017)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) White-tipped Swift. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 8 November 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/White-tipped_Swift

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