White-throated swift
Aeronautes saxatalis
Identification Tips:
- Sexes similar
- Juvenile similar to adult
- Small aerial bird with cigar-shaped body and crescent-shaped
wings
- Short tail strongly notched at tip
- Black upperparts
- Whitish throat extending down central belly and tapering to blunt
point
- Black belly and sides of breast with isolated white spot on
flanks
- Underwings pale gray
Similar species:
All swallows have longer tails, usually with a notch or fork,
and broader wings. Black Swift and White-throated Swifts have
forked tails and different patterning below. Chimney Swift is
extremely similar but is larger, with longer wings, a darker rump
and throat, and a different call.