Short-tailed Swift

Taxonomy

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Apodidae

Genus

Chaetura

eBird Code

shtswi1

Subspecies (4)

• Chaetura brachyura brachyura

  southwestern Panama eastward to the Guianas, Trinidad (and Tobago, this race or praevelox?), southward through Amazonia from eastern Peru to central Bolivia and in east to Mato Grosso, northern Tocantins and Maranhão (central to northeastern Brazil)

• Chaetura brachyura cinereocauda

  north-central Brazil

• Chaetura brachyura ocypetes

  locally in southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru

• Chaetura brachyura praevelox

  Martinique to St. Vincent (southern Lesser Antilles); visitor to other islands in Lesser Antilles