๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Band-rumped Swift live?

Chaetura spinicaudus has 28,621 records in 11 countries and territories, from 1882 to 2026. Most records come from Panama.

Band-rumped Swift
Band-rumped Swift โ€” Photo: Hector Bottai ยท CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesApodiformesApodidaeChaetura

When it is recorded

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Peak month: February. 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
Panama 13,600
Brazil 3,589
Guyana 2,908
Trinidad & Tobago 2,256
Colombia 1,875
French Guiana 1,322
Suriname 1,152
Ecuador 1,032
Venezuela 850
Costa Rica 36
Mexico 1

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 โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.