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Black Swift Cypseloides niger Scientific name definitions

Peter E. Lowther, Charles T. Collins, Carolyn Gunn, Jason Beason, Kim Potter, and M. Webb
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 1, 2002

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Distribution of the Black Swift

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Recommended Citation

Lowther, P. E., C. T. Collins, C. Gunn, J. P. Beason, K. Potter, and M. Webb (2020). Black Swift (Cypseloides niger), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.blkswi.01
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