Ashy-tailed Swift
Chaetura andreiBerlepsch, HHCL; Hartert, EJO, 1902
English (US) Ashy-tailed Swift
The Ashy-tailed Swift (Chaetura andrei) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Apodidae (Swifts) in the order Apodiformes.
Range: northern Venezuela, but distribution very poorly known: confirmed from the RÃo Orinoco Valley in BolÃvar and from SucreRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Chaetura andrei
- Family
- Apodidae (Swifts)
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Ashy-tailed Swift
- Described by
- Berlepsch, HHCL; Hartert, EJO, 1902
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Berlepsch, HHCL; Hartert, EJO, 1902
- Type locality
- Caicara, Orinoco River, Venezuela.
- Original description
- Novitates Zoologicae 9 p.91
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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