page_title: List of birds of Brazil
section_title: Swifts
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Brazil / Swifts
context_page_description: Brazil has one of the richest bird diversities in the world. The avifauna of Brazil include a total of 1823 confirmed species of which 238 are endemic. Five have been introduced by humans, 78 are rare or vagrants, and four are extinct or extirpated. An additional 21 species are hypothetical.
  Brazil hosts about 60% of the bird species recorded for all of South America. These numbers are still increasing almost every year, due to new occurrences, new species being described, or splits of existing species. About 10% of the bird species found in Brazil are, nonetheless, threatened.
  In June 2013 a simultaneous discovery of fifteen bird species in Brazil was announced, the first such since 1871, when August von Pelzeln described forty new species. The birds were from the families Corvidae, Thamnophilidae, Dendrocolaptidae, Tyrannidae, and Polioptilidae. Eleven of the new species are endemics of Brazil and four also inhabit Peru and Bolivia.
  Except as an entry is cited otherwise, the list of species is that of the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society. The list's taxonomic treatment and nomenclature are also those of the SACC.
context_section_description: Order: Apodiformes   Family: Apodidae
  Swifts are small birds which spend the majority of their lives flying. These birds have very short legs and never settle voluntarily on the ground, perching instead only on vertical surfaces. Many swifts have long swept-back wings which resemble a crescent or boomerang.
  White-chinned swift, Cypseloides cryptus
  Black swift, Cypseloides niger
  White-chested swift, Cypseloides lemosi (H)
  Sooty swift, Cypseloides fumigatus
  Great dusky swift, Cypseloides senex
  Tepui swift, Streptoprocne phelpsi
  White-collared swift, Streptoprocne zonaris
  Biscutate swift, Streptoprocne biscutata
  Band-rumped swift, Chaetura spinicaudus
  Gray-rumped swift, Chaetura cinereiventris
  Pale-rumped swift, Chaetura egregia
  Chimney swift, Chaetura pelagica (H)
  Chapman's swift, Chaetura chapmani
  Amazonian swift, Chaetura viridipennis
  Sick's swift, Chaetura meridionalis
  Short-tailed swift, Chaetura brachyura
  White-tipped swift, Aeronautes montivagus
  Fork-tailed palm-swift, Tachornis squamata
  Lesser swallow-tailed swift, Panyptila cayennensis
caption: Chimney swift
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