About: American Black Swift

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The American black swift or more simply black swift (Cypseloides niger), is a species of swift that are found from northern British Columbia in Canada through the United States and Mexico to Costa Rica and Brazil. They are also found on islands in the West Indies. In flight, these birds resemble a flying cigar with long slender curved wings. The plumage is mostly a sooty dark gray. There is some contrast between the upper and lower wing. The shoulders are much darker in color than the remaining portion of the wing. They also have short slightly forked tails.

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rdfs:label	American Black Swift
rdfs:comment	The American black swift or more simply black swift (Cypseloides niger), is a species of swift that are found from northern British Columbia in Canada through the United States and Mexico to Costa Rica and Brazil. They are also found on islands in the West Indies. In flight, these birds resemble a flying cigar with long slender curved wings. The plumage is mostly a sooty dark gray. There is some contrast between the upper and lower wing. The shoulders are much darker in color than the remaining portion of the wing. They also have short slightly forked tails.
sameAs	dbr:American_black_swift
dcterms:subject	Least Concern Species Animalia Chordata Aves Birds of Cuba Birds of Mexico Birds of Costa Rica Birds of the United States Birds of the Greater Antilles Birds of Trinidad and Tobago Cypselomorphae Apodiformes Apodidae Birds of Dominica Cypseloidinae Animals Described in 1789 Cypseloides Birds of the Lesser Antilles Birds of the Caribbean
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Status	Least Concern
Name	American Black Swift
imagewidth	220(xsd:integer)
Species	Cypseloides niger
Genus	Cypseloides
Class	Aves
OtherName	Black Swift
Family	Apodidae
Order	Apodiformes
Location	northern British Columbia in Canada through the United States and Mexico to Costa Rica and Brazil. They are also found on islands in the West Indies.
abstract	The American black swift or more simply black swift (Cypseloides niger), is a species of swift that are found from northern British Columbia in Canada through the United States and Mexico to Costa Rica and Brazil. They are also found on islands in the West Indies. In flight, these birds resemble a flying cigar with long slender curved wings. The plumage is mostly a sooty dark gray. There is some contrast between the upper and lower wing. The shoulders are much darker in color than the remaining portion of the wing. They also have short slightly forked tails. Their breeding habitat is frequently associated with water. The birds most often nest on high cliff faces, either above the ocean surf or behind or next to waterfalls. The nest is made of twigs and moss glued together with mud. They will also use ferns and seaweed if available. The clutch size is one egg, with incubation lasting 23–27 days. Newly hatched young are probably fed multiple times a day, but older nestlings usually only once a day by each parent, most often at dusk. Adults spend the night roosting at or near the nest site. These birds do migrate out of North America after the breeding season. It remains unclear where most of the birds spend the winter, although some of the birds have been tracked as far south as Brazil, migrating there from Colorado. Some of the birds in the West Indies appear to be permanent residents. They are late spring migrants into the breeding range, with Colorado breeders not arriving until the very end of May into June. Large flocks of migrants are occasionally seen spring and fall, but only very rarely far south of the U.S. breeding range. American black swifts live on the wing, foraging in flight. They eat flying insects, primarily flying ants and beetles, often foraging in small groups.
is Caption of	Cypseloides Cypseloidinae

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