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Vagrant from North America
Photo by LSB
Holy Island, Northumberland, Novembe 2005

Chaetura pelagicar

[edit] Identification

12-15cm

• Grey brown underparts
• Sooty-brown back
• Pale throat, cheeks and chin
• Short tail
  

Sexes alike

[edit] Distribution

Photo by NAL1212
Lake Michigan, USA, May 2008

Eastern North America, wintering in Amazon Basin of South America (Brazil and Chile).

A rare vagrant to the British Isles.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

[edit] Habitat

A variety, including open areas.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

They nest in chimneys building a saucer shaped nest from twigs glued together with saliva. The 3-7 white eggs are incubated by the female for 19-20 days. The young fledge a month later.

[edit] Diet

They hawk for flying insects.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Cornell Lab of Ornithology

• List of references

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