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Photo by Marcelo Padua
Photo taken at Belem, Para, Brazil

Chaetura brachyura

[edit] Identification

10.5 cm. Long narrow wings, a robust body and a short tail. The sexes are similar. It is mainly black with a pale rump and tail.

[edit] Distribution

Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada and St Vincent, Panama, Colombia and the Guianas south to Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Savanna, open woodland, and cultivation.

[edit] Behaviour

The nest is a 5 cm wide shallow half-saucer of twigs and saliva attached to a vertical surface. 3-7 white eggs are laid and incubated by both parents for 17-18 days. The young leave the nest in a further two weeks, but remain near it, clinging to the cavity wall without flying, for another two weeks.

The diet includes flying insects, including winged ants and termites.

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