Alternative name: Pygmy Swift
- Tachornis furcata
Identification
10 cm. A tiny swift.
- Long, thin wings
- Deeply forked tail
- Uniformly brown upperparts
- Whitish throat, brown breast band, whitish mid-belly, mid-brown rest of underparts
- nigrodorsalis with blacker upperparts and whiter throat
Distribution
It is found in northeast Colombia and western Venezuela.
Common in its small range.
Taxonomy
Formerly placed in the monospecific genus Micropanyptila or together with Fork-tailed Palm Swift in Reinarda.
Subspecies
There are 2 subspecies[1]:
- T. f. furcata:
- T. f. nigrodorsalis:
- Lowlands of western Venezuela
Habitat
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
Behaviour
Diet
Feeds on insects. Forages in small flocks in the air.
Breeding
Nests recorded in July, February and January. The nest is shaped like a bag and made of feathers glued together with salivary cement. It's attached in a palm tree.
Movements
Probably a resident species.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2022. IOC World Bird List (v 12.2) DRAFT. Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.12.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2018)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Pygmy Palm Swift. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 8 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Pygmy_Palm_Swift
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.
