| Sick's Swift Chaetura
meridionalis (aka Ashy-tailed Swift Chaetura andrei) Brazilian name: Andorinhão-do-temporal |
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| São Fernando de
Paraguaçu, Bahia, Brazil November 2008 Sick's Swift is considered by some authorities to be a subspecies of Ashy-tailed Swift C. andrei. Other authorities consider it to be a full species while they consider C. andrei to be a sub-species of Vaux's Swift C. vauxi . All rather confusing really. |
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Photo 3 shows a bird with its head tucked
down showing the pale throat and photo 4 was taken in a well
where some birds were roosting and some were nesting. |
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