Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Catalan | falciot de les cascades |
| Czech | rorýs zavalitý |
| Dutch | Roetgierzwaluw |
| English | Great Dusky Swift |
| English (United States) | Great Dusky Swift |
| French | Martinet à tête grise |
| French (France) | Martinet à tête grise |
| German | Rußsegler |
| Japanese | オオムジアマツバメ |
| Norwegian | fosseseiler |
| Polish | cierniosternik ciemny |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | taperuçu-velho |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Taperuçu-velho |
| Russian | Сумеречный стриж |
| Serbian | Velika tamna čiopa |
| Slovak | sadziar sivohlavý |
| Spanish | Vencejo Canoso |
| Spanish (Argentina) | Vencejo de Cascada |
| Spanish (Paraguay) | Vencejo de cascada |
| Spanish (Spain) | Vencejo canoso |
| Swedish | vattenfallsseglare |
| Turkish | Boz Başlı Ebabil |
| Ukrainian | Свіфт світлоголовий |
Great Dusky Swift Cypseloides senex
Connor Rosenblatt
Version: 1.0 — Published July 18, 2014
Version: 1.0 — Published July 18, 2014
Diet and Foraging
Diet
Great Dusky Swift is insectivorous, but its diet is not known in much detail. The contents of the stomachs of three specimens from Brazil contained Coleoptera (Bruchiade, Carabidae, Chrysomelidae, Curculionidae, Nitidulidae, Staphylinidae, and Tenebrionidae), Diptera, Hemiptera, Homoptera, and Hymenoptera (Formicidae, Ichneumonoidea, and microhymenoptera) (Schubart et al. 1965).
