[order] APODIFORMES | [family] Apodidae | [latin] Chaetura chapmani | [UK] Chapmans Swift | [FR] Martinet de Chapman | [DE] Chapmansegler | [ES] Vencejo de Chapman | [NL] Chapmans Gierzwaluw
Subspecies
Monotypic species
Physical charateristics
Crown and back black, wings black with a blue gloss. Rump and uppercoverts greyish brown. Underparts dull greyish brown. Throat and fore-neck slightly pale.
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| wingspan min.: | 0 | cm | wingspan max.: | 0 | cm |
| size min.: | 13 | cm | size max.: | 14 | cm |
| incubation min.: | 18 | days | incubation max.: | 19 | days |
| fledging min.: | 0 | days | fledging max.: | 19 | days |
| broods: | 1 | eggs min.: | 2 | ||
| eggs max.: | 4 |
Range
Latin America : Panama to Northeast Brazil
Habitat
Its main habitats are lowland evergreen forest edge, secondary forest, and second-growth scrub, also mangrove and swamp areas.
Reproduction
Half cup nest built also on man made structures. Uses saliva to attach nest to strcuture or tree. Clutch size 2-4 eggs incubated for about 18 days. Chicks at birth pinkish and with no down.
Feeding habits
Hunts, in mixed flocks, insects low above ground in dense low clouded areas.
Conservation
This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Migration
Nominate race resident within its range; viridipennis a transequatorial migrant, with Mar-Apr records from Antioquia, Colombia. Recorded late Aug, Los Fierros, Santa Cruz, E Bolivia.
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