Chimney Swift
Chaetura pelagica
Vulnerable (IUCN Red List)Swifts
Photo: Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · iNaturalist · CC0 1.0 (licence)
Call and song
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About the Chimney Swift
The "flying cigar" with a blunt head, squared-off tail, and long, sickle-shaped wings. Body is dark gray with a slightly paler throat. Flies all day long with ridiculously fast, snappy wingbeats. Nests and roosts in chimneys. Often seen in small groups, twittering and cruising around town in search of insects. The only swift in the eastern U.S.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 40 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Caribbean Netherlands
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guadeloupe
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Ireland
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Spain
- Sweden
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Virgin Islands (U.S.)
