Sick's Swift
Chaetura meridionalisHellmayr, CE, 1907
English (US) Sick's Swift
The Sick's Swift (Chaetura meridionalis) 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: breeds from eastern Bolivia southward to northern Argentina and eastward to east-central Brazil; partially migratory, wintering north to Panama, northern Colombia, northern Venezuela, and SurinameRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Chaetura meridionalis
- Family
- Apodidae (Swifts)
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Sick's Swift
- Described by
- Hellmayr, CE, 1907
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Chaetura andrei meridionalis
- Described by
- Hellmayr, CE, 1907
- Type locality
- State of Santiago del Estero, Argentina.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 19 p.63
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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