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Genus: Streptoprocne (5 species)


Biscutate Swift
Biscutate Swift (Streptoprocne biscutata)
Range: SA: e
Chapada dos Guimarães, Agua Fria Road, Mato Grosso, Brazil   		   
Photograph by Matt Grube   © All Rights Reserved.
A large, dark swift with white collar and square tail.

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Tepui Swift (Streptoprocne phelpsi)
Range: SA: tepuis
   



Chestnut-collared Swift
Chestnut-collared Swift (Streptoprocne rutila brunnitorques)
Range: MA, SA: widespread
La Romera, Itagui, Antioquia, Colombia   		   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.
A smaller swift sometimes seen with groups of White-collared Swift. Note chestnut collar on male.
Male on nest.

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White-naped Swift (Streptoprocne semicollaris)
Range: MA: w Mexico
    



White-collared Swift
White-collared Swift (Streptoprocne zonaris subtropicalis)
Range: MA, SA, NA: widespread, also Caribbean
La Romera, Itagui, Antioquia, Colombia
  The white collar can be seen in flight. 		   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.
The largest and also the most common swift; sometimes seen very high in groups of hundreds.
Additional photo.
From below.

© Tom Friedel - All Rights Reserved, except for images and data otherwise noted.       Colombia       Panama       Ecuador       Costa Rica       Mexico
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Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Cuba