🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Black Swift live?

Cypseloides niger has 46,908 records in 37 countries and territories, from 1861 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

AnimaliaChordataAvesApodiformesApodidaeCypseloides

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. 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
United States 20,256
Canada 15,467
Costa Rica 3,503
Mexico 2,598
Guadeloupe 1,074
Puerto Rico 1,028
Panama 710
Jamaica 595
Dominican Republic 281
Dominica 216
Cuba 194
Haiti 177
Saint Lucia 124
Nicaragua 111
Martinique 108
Guatemala 104
Barbados 97
Grenada 55
St Vincent & the Grenadines 55
Honduras 50
Colombia 23
St Kitts & Nevis 19
El Salvador 18
Bonaire 7
Cayman Islands 5
Bermuda 4
Aruba 3
Saint Barthélemy 3
Brazil 3
Ecuador 3
French Guiana 3
Saint Martin 3
South Africa 3
Curaçao 2
Montserrat 2
US Virgin Islands 2
Venezuela 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 — 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.