Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Apodidae
Genus
Streptoprocne
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Chestnut-collared Swift Streptoprocne rutila

Thomas S. Schulenberg and Camile Shaw
Version: 1.0 — Published April 3, 2015

Sounds and Vocal Behavior

Vocalizations

The common flight call of Chestnut-collared Swift is a buzzy note, given singly or strung together in a chatter. This vocalization variously is described as "buzzy, crackling chatters, zzchi zzchi-zzchi-zzchi-zzchi, etc.", with a quality that "may recall electricity crackling in pylon wires", and with an occasionally screechy note given as well (Howell and Webb 1995); as "high-pitched buzzes, bzt-bst-bzt ...., and longer buzzy rattles bjjjj .. bjjjj ..., without [the] exuberant staccato trills and outbursts of Chaetura swifts" (Hilty 2003); and as "buzzy [notes that] sound like electric crackles or static, occasionally strung into a chatter: bzzzz'tzz'tzz'tzz zz zzzz zzzzz zzzz" (Lane, in Schulenberg et al. 2010).

Additional audio recordings of vocalizations of Chestnut-collared Swift can be heard at Macaulay Library, at xeno-canto, and at Internet Bird Collection.

Nonvocal Sounds

None reported.

Recommended Citation

Schulenberg, T. S. and C. Shaw (2015). Chestnut-collared Swift (Streptoprocne rutila), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.chcswi1.01