Listen to the Chimney swift
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About the Chimney swift
The Chimney swift is a bird in the family Apodidae (order Apodiformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “vulnerable”. Adults weigh around 24 g.
What does the Chimney swift sound like?
Birds produce sound with the syrinx, a vocal organ deep in the chest that can make two independent sounds at once. Songs tend to be long and patterned and are used to hold territory and attract a mate; calls are short signals for contact, alarm and flight.
The recordings here are labelled as call. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The chimney swift (Chaetura pelagica) is a bird belonging to the swift family Apodidae. A member of the genus Chaetura, it is closely related to both Vaux's swift and Chapman's swift; in the past, the three were sometimes considered to be conspecific. It has no subspecies. The chimney swift is a medium-sized, sooty gray bird with very long, slender wings and very short legs. Like all swifts, it is incapable of perching on flat surfaces, and can only perch on vertical surfaces. Many fly around all day and only come down at night when roosting.
Related birds in the genus Chaetura
More from the family Apodidae
Frequently asked questions
What does a Chimney swift sound like?
You can hear 1 recording of the Chimney swift on this page, including its call. Birds produce sound with the syrinx, a vocal organ deep in the chest that can make two independent sounds at once.
Is the Chimney swift endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Chimney swift as “vulnerable”.
What family does the Chimney swift belong to?
The Chimney swift (Chaetura pelagica) belongs to the family Apodidae in the order Apodiformes.
Sources & credits
- Call · Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa, United States by Jonathon Jongsma – CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q912863 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Chimney swift – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Adam Jackson – CC0 1.0