Vaux's Swift (Chaetura vauxi)

Vaux's Swift (Chaetura vauxi)

About Vaux's Swift (Chaetura vauxi)

Kingdom: Animals
Phylum: Chordates
Class: Birds
Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts
Family: Swifts

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Lifelists

Trips

Visits

2003-05-27

Mount Rainier National Park, United States of America

Two seen briefly in treetops at Silver Falls Trail.
2007-04-09

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, United States of America
2009-01-14

Cozumel, Mexico

Hard to tell on the ID for this. We saw a flock of about 100 flying over San Miguel Town.
2009-01-25

Actun Tunichil Muknal Cave, Belize

About 20 to 30 of these swifts were feeding over farmland. I am basing the identification partly on the range maps in the Howell book.
2009-03-05

Isla Coiba, Panama
2010-02-20

Temescaltepec, Mexico
2014-05-10

Cave Creek Canyon--South Fork, United States of America
2014-09-20

McNear Brick and Block, United States of America
2016-09-11

McNear Brick and Block, United States of America
2018-09-16

McNear Brick and Block, United States of America
2019-05-18

Yosemite National Park, United States of America
2020-07-21

Rogue River, United States of America
2021-08-14

Laguna de Santa Rosa, United States of America
2024-03-29

San Jose del Pacifico, Mexico
2025-04-27

Pasadena, United States of America
2025-05-05

Presidio - Battery Godfrey, United States of America