Sooty Swift
Cypseloides fumigatus
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关于
烟色雨燕栖息于南美洲热带地区，具有煤烟色暗色羽毛。
Physical Description
| Measurement | Value | Imperial |
|---|---|---|
| 翼展 | 29.0 cm | 11.4 in |
| 体重 | 41.666666666666664 g | 1.47 oz |
识别
羽毛
Uniformly dark sooty-brown plumage throughout; no contrasting pale markings anywhere; slightly paler brownish-grey on throat; large and uniform; South American species whose entirely dark coloration recalls blackish swiftlets but much larger.
Habitat & Range
分布范围
Found in the Guiana Shield and Amazon Basin in Brazil, Venezuela, and the Guianas. Nomadic; associated with rocky outcrops and waterfalls.
Diet & Feeding
Catches aerial plankton — tiny midges, gnats, and ballooning spiders — continuously during soaring flight.
保护状况
行为与繁殖
产卵数
1
声音
鸣唱
Soft twittering 'tsit-tsit'; thin, buzzy notes in flight; calls over Neotropical waterfalls and gorges; quiet, raspy trill; rarely as vocal as larger swift species
分类学
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Aves |
| 目 | Caprimulgiformes (Nightjars & Swifts) |
| 科 | Apodidae (Swifts) |
| Genus | Cypseloides |
| 物种 | Cypseloides fumigatus |
Distribution
Sooty Swift has been recorded in 1 countries.
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Similar Birds
Other species in the Apodidae family