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Chaetura fumosa

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA AVES APODIFORMES APODIDAE

Scientific Name: Chaetura fumosa
Species Authority: Salvin, 1870
Common Name/s:
English – Costa Rican Swift
Taxonomic Notes: Chaetura spinicauda (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into C. spinicaudus and C. fumosa following AOU (1998). Gender agreement of Chaetura spinicaudus follows David and Gosselin (2002a).

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published: 2012
Assessor/s: BirdLife International
Reviewer/s: Butchart, S. & Symes, A.
Contributor/s:
Justification:
Although this species may have a small range, it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
History:
2009 – Least Concern
2008 – Least Concern
2004 – Least Concern
1994 – Not Recognized
1988 – Not Recognized

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:
Native:
Colombia; Costa Rica; Panama
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Population [top]

Population: The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is described as common and the most common swift in lowland Costa Rica (del Hoyo et al. 1999).
Population Trend: Stable

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems: Terrestrial

Bibliography [top]

del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. 1999. Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol. 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.

IUCN. 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2012.1). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 19 June 2012).
Citation: BirdLife International 2012. Chaetura fumosa. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 May 2013.
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