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    ID Help: Swift with white-rump, white chin

    [It was me; and I did point that out] Yes, but there just aren't any of the Little Swift ID pointers here. Rump white isn't massive like Little's, tail has central notch in +/- all photos, there's no evidence of paler greyish vent or upper tail coverts, I feel tail feather tips are better for...
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    ID Help: Swift with white-rump, white chin

    They don't change my view. Here the rump seems restricted compared with little swift, and the throat is difficult to discern. It's difficult to assess the precise shape of the tail feathers, but I think it's clear it's not (e.g.) white-rumped swift, Horus swift. Anyway, please have a look at the...
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    ID Help: Swift with white-rump, white chin

    now summarised here: https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Identifying_small_white-rumped_swifts#Key_Comparisons
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    ID Help: Swift with white-rump, white chin

    (Just to note House Swift was seen in British Columbia in 2012. So same hemisphere, but rather different location...)
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    ID Help: Swift with white-rump, white chin

    I just cantered through this excellent paper: https://sabap2.birdmap.africa/docs/Horus_Swift_Jansen_Driessens.pdf My understanding is the most consistent character for Horus is a pale face with no sharp demarcation of the white throat patch. Others include pale markings on the underwing. I see...
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    ID Help: Swift with white-rump, white chin

    I'm not so familiar with that species but I thought the throat patch not so neat as we see here (cf ebird photos), and the tail more forked than in the op photos. Little almost always seems to show a square tail but house often gives an indication of a fork
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    ID Help: Swift with white-rump, white chin

    Shouldn't that species show extensive white underneath, with white rump patches which spill over the sides of the rump? I agree it does look quite long-tailed for house or little swift. If it is one of those two, I think perhaps house swift. Supposedly, the differences are that the white rump...
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