American black swift | |
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An adult on its nest in Shoshone County, Idaho | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Apodidae |
Genus: | Cypseloides |
Species: | C. niger
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Binomial name | |
Cypseloides niger (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
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Range
breeding visitor
passage and vagrancy
present year-round
(movements in South America are poorly known) |
The American black swift, or more simply black swift (Cypseloides niger), is a species of bird that is found from northern British Columbia in Canada through the United States and Mexico to Costa Rica and Brazil. They are also found in the Caribbean.