Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Catalan | falciot de les palmeres gros |
| Czech | rorýs vidloocasý |
| Dutch | Braziliaanse Palmgierzwaluw |
| English | Fork-tailed Palm Swift |
| English (United States) | Fork-tailed Palm Swift |
| French | Martinet claudia |
| French (France) | Martinet claudia |
| German | Gabelschwanzsegler |
| Japanese | オナガヤシアマツバメ |
| Norwegian | moricheseiler |
| Polish | widłogończyk łuskowany |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | andorinhão-do-buriti |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Andorinhão-tesourinha |
| Russian | Вилохвостый стрижик |
| Serbian | Račvorepa palmina čiopa |
| Slovak | dážďovník nožnicochvostý |
| Spanish | Vencejillo Tijereta |
| Spanish (Argentina) | Vencejo Tijereta |
| Spanish (Ecuador) | Vencejo de Morete |
| Spanish (Peru) | Vencejo Tijereta de Palmeras |
| Spanish (Spain) | Vencejillo tijereta |
| Spanish (Venezuela) | Vencejo Tijereta |
| Swedish | gaffelstjärtad palmseglare |
| Turkish | Amerika Palmiye Ebabili |
| Ukrainian | Серпокрилець-крихітка неотропічний |
SPECIES
Fork-tailed Palm-Swift Tachornis squamata
Sean Cooper
Version: 1.0 — Published March 6, 2015
Version: 1.0 — Published March 6, 2015
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Diet and Foraging
Diet
Fork-tailed Palm-Swift is completely insectivorous. Arthropods reported in the diet include Araneae, Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Homoptera, Hymenoptera, Isoptera, Lepidoptera, and Psocoptera (Schubart et al. 1965, Haverschmidt 1968, Collins and Thomas 2012). At one site in Venezuela, the majority (52%) of items the diet consisted of flies (Diptera), followed in importance by Homoptera (18%), and Hymenoptera (10.5%) (Collins and Thomas 2012). The diet perhaps varies seasonally or geographically, as Sick (1993) reported that the diet consists almost entirely (90%) of small ants and termites.