🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Gray-rumped Swift live?

Chaetura cinereiventris has 81,143 records in 17 countries and territories, from 1881 to 2026. Most records come from Costa Rica.

AnimaliaChordataAvesApodiformesApodidaeChaetura

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Costa Rica 20,878
Brazil 19,481
Ecuador 13,012
Colombia 12,255
Trinidad & Tobago 4,031
Peru 3,664
Argentina 3,039
Venezuela 1,717
Panama 1,079
Grenada 463
Paraguay 449
Guyana 444
Bolivia 288
Nicaragua 214
Honduras 103
St Vincent & the Grenadines 24
Aruba 2

Related animals

Others in the family Apodidae.

Common Swift
Common Swift
3,081,538 records
Little Swift
Little Swift
535,342 records
Asian Palm-Swift
Asian Palm-Swift
434,905 records
Vaux's Swift
Vaux's Swift
426,681 records
White-collared Swift
White-collared Swift
332,364 records
African Palm-Swift
African Palm-Swift
287,770 records
Alpine Swift
Alpine Swift
271,014 records
House Swift
House Swift
264,910 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.