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Chapman's swift

Chaetura chapmani Hellmayr, 1907

LCLeast Concernbirds

The chapman's swift (Chaetura chapmani) is a species in the family Apodidae, order Apodiformes. Recorded adults weigh 17 g to 24 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Chapman's swift (Chaetura chapmani)
Photo: Hector Bottai · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the chapman's swift

Weight
17 g – 24 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Invertivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Egg incubation
17.5 dayssrc for Egg incubation
Young per litter or clutch
2 – 2.25src for Young per litter or clutch
Lifestyle
Aerialsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Partialsrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the chapman's swift live?

Not recorded

What is the chapman's swift?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

Chapman's swift (Chaetura chapmani) is a species of bird in subfamily Apodinae of the swift family Apodidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad, Venezuela, and possibly Ecuador.

From the Wikipedia article “Chapman's swift” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chapman%27s_swift&oldid=1379851495), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the chapman's swift endangered?

The chapman's swift is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

How is the chapman's swift classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderApodiformes
  5. familyApodidae
  6. genusChaetura
  7. SpeciesChaetura chapmani Hellmayr, 1907
Other names and names in other languages (33)
  • سمامة تشابمانArabic
  • falciot cuaespinós de ChapmanCatalan
  • rorýs ChapmanůvCzech
  • coblyn ChapmanWelsh
  • Chapman´ TornhalesejlerDanish
  • Chapmans TornhalesejlerDanish
  • ChapmanseglerGerman
  • Chapman-SeglerGerman
  • ĉapmana apodoEsperanto
  • Vencejo de ChapmanSpanish
  • siid-kammsabaEstonian
  • silkkikiitäjäFinnish
  • Martinet de ChapmanFrench
  • chapmanova čiopaCroatian
  • Chapman-sarlósfecskeHungarian
  • Rondone di ChapmanItalian
  • ハイバラハリオアマツバメJapanese
  • Čapmeno cheturaLithuanian
  • Chapmans GierzwaluwDutch
  • guyanaseilerNorwegian
  • kominiarczyk jednobarwnyPolish
  • andorinhão-da-guianaPortuguese
  • andorinhão-de-chapmanPortuguese
  • Иглохвост ЧапменаRussian
  • Темногрудый иглохвостRussian
  • srp ChapmanovSlovak
  • Čapmanova čiopaSerbian
  • amazonseglareSwedish
  • chapmanseglareSwedish
  • Chapman İğnekuyruğuTurkish
  • голкохвіст колумбійськийUkrainian
  • 查氏雨燕Chinese
  • 黑胸刺尾雨燕Chinese

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Relatives of the chapman's swift

Other species in the same genus Chaetura.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the chapman's swift?

An adult chapman's swift weighs 17 g – 24 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the chapman's swift endangered?

The chapman's swift is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the chapman's swift?

The chapman's swift (Chaetura chapmani) belongs to the family Apodidae in the order Apodiformes.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Chapman's swift (Chaetura chapmani). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/chapmans-swift

MLA

“Chapman's swift (Chaetura chapmani).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/chapmans-swift.

BibTeX
@misc{chapmans_swift_2026,
  title = {Chapman's swift (Chaetura chapmani)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/chapmans-swift},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}