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Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift (Panyptila cayennensis)

Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift
Photo: Michael Woodruff via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift

The lesser swallow-tailed swift or Cayenne swift (Panyptila cayennensis) is a species of bird in subfamily Apodinae of the swift family Apodidae. It is found from southern Mexico through Central America; in every mainland South America country except Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay; and on Trinidad.

Source: Lesser swallow-tailed swift on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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No audio on this page yet

We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 19 recordings for this species: 9 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Other birds you can hear here

These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.