Short Tailed Swift

Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Ammo Dump, Panama, April 2010

Bird name: Short Tailed Swift
Latin: Chaetura brachyura
Other: Vencejo rabón (Es)
Family: Apodidae • Swifts
Range: Panama through Amazonia

Short-tailed Swifts seemed to be the most common sort in Panama. Identifiable by their apparent lack of tail.

There were one or two other types of swift pointed out at times - Costa Rican Swift, Band-rumped Swift, and the more easily identified White-collared Swift, which I had already seen in Brazil - but the photos are so distant and ambiguous that I’ll wait for a better opportunity before adding those entries to the site.