Vaux's Swift
Field guide
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Vaux's Swift

Chaetura vauxi

Overview

Arenal and Monteverde are the two atlas places where Vaux's Swift is recorded, with records concentrating in the United States, Costa Rica, Mexico, Canada and Guatemala. The atlas holds about 270,000 open records of this bird across ten countries, and its map shows where these records concentrate.

Records are seasonal, peaking from April to August and reaching their lowest levels between November and February.

Records
270,237
Countries
10
Atlas places
2
Months with records
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Each bar is the share of its 200 month-dated grid cells with records in that month.

Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Vaux's Swift as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • United States
    25 km zone · high confidence · 172446 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Costa Rica
    25 km zone · high confidence · 26139 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Mexico
    25 km zone · high confidence · 25425 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Canada
    25 km zone · high confidence · 15899 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Guatemala
    25 km zone · high confidence · 11085 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Belize
    25 km zone · high confidence · 7814 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • El Salvador
    25 km zone · high confidence · 5539 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Nicaragua
    25 km zone · high confidence · 2326 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Honduras
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1942 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Panama
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1622 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Vaux's Swift