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Black Swift

Cypseloides niger

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Apodidae

The American black swift, or more simply black swift (Cypseloides niger), is a species of bird that is found from northern British Columbia in Canada through the United States and Mexico to Costa Rica and Brazil. They are also found in the Caribbean. Taxonomy The American black swift was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 8,161Canada · 6,610Mexico · 1,097France · 469Cuba · 77Netherlands · 5United Kingdom · 2