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Pale-rumped Swift
Chaetura egregia Todd, 1916
Apodidae — Swifts
Pale-rumped Swift, Chaetura egregia, is a bird of western Amazonia in South America, breeding in eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, western Brazil and north-western Bolivia, with records from Colombia. It belongs to the swift family Apodidae and was described by Todd in 1916. It is a monotypic species. The bird has a black upper body with a bronze sheen, a pale rump and uppertail coverts, and dark underparts marked by a pale throat. Its shape includes a projecting head, a short square tail, and wings that broaden in the middle and curve slightly at the tip.
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Apodidae — Swifts
- Breeding range
- South America: w Amazonia
