Directory of Apodiformes Resources

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Hummingbirds and swifts.

Subcategories

• Trochilidae

Resources in This Category

• Chimney Swift: Chaetura pelagica

  http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Chimney_Swift/id
  Provides photographs, a sound file, and data on this bird's behavior and physical traits.

• ChimneySwifts.org

  http://www.chimneyswifts.org/
  Promotes the conservation of Chimney Swifts through education, preservation of existing habitat, and creation of new nesting and roosting sites. Details about the North American Chimney Swift nest site research project and spring Chimney Swift sightings reports.

• Common Swift: Apus apus

  http://www.commonswift.org/
  Detailed information about the species for everyone from beginners to advanced researchers. Includes bibliography and APUSlife, a virtual magazine.

• Phaethornis superciliosus (Long-Tailed Hermit)

  http://animaldiversity.org/site/accounts/information/Phaethornis_superciliosus.html
  Species account includes facts about this bird's diet, habitat, reproduction, and behavior.

• Swallows, Martins, Swifts Worldwide

  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide
  For both specialist and amateur, this discussion group aims to discuss and disseminate information on Apodidae and Hirundinidae.

• The Coolest Bird: A Natural History of the Black Swift and Those Who Have Pursued It

  http://aba.org/thecoolestbird.pdf
  Book by Rich Levad tells the story of this North American bird first described in 1857.

• Vaux's Swift (Chaetura vauxi)

  http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i4240id.html
  Describes this bird's physical traits, migration status, habitat, and nesting. Includes a taxonomy chart.

• Vaux's Swift: Chaetura vauxi

  http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Vauxs_Swift/id
  Description, photograph, sound file, range map and status.

• White-throated Swift: Aeronautes saxatalis

  http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/White-throated_Swift/id
  Photographs of this fast flying bird, a description, range map and sound file.

 

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