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White-collared Swift

Streptoprocne zonaris · Family Apodidae

Streptoprocne zonaris

Family Apodidae

Order
Apodiformes
Family
Apodidae
GBIF occurrence records
333,497
Countries and territories with records
37
White-collared Swift
Charles J. Sharp · White-collared swift (Streptoprocne zonaris altissima) in flight Caldas.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Niels Krabbe · Streptoprocne_zonaris_-_White-collared_Swift_XC251566.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 333,497 occurrence records from 37 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (25.7%), Colombia (24.9%), Ecuador (13%), Brazil (6.7%) and Peru (6%); together they account for 76.4% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.33% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Streptoprocne zonaris combines the genus name Streptoprocne with the species epithet zonaris. The Warbla app catalog lists 5 species of the genus Streptoprocne; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Streptoprocne rutila, Streptoprocne biscutata and Streptoprocne semicollaris.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 96 species of the family Apodidae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Chaetura pelagica. Its record count is 2.7 times the family average (123,580). The family Apodidae belongs to the order Apodiformes, which has 452 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Apodidae

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