Loons
Grebes
Albatrosses
Shearwaters and Petrels
Storm-Petrels
Tropicbirds
Boobies and Gannets
Pelicans
Cormorants
Darters (Anhinga)
Frigatebirds
Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns
Ibises and Spoonbills
Storks
New World Vultures
Flamingos
Ducks, Geese, and Swans
Hawks and Allies
Falcons and Caracaras
Chachalacas and Allies
Grouse, Turkeys, and Allies
New World Quail
Rails, Gallinules, and Coots
Limpkin
Cranes
Thick-knees
Plovers and Lapwings
Oystercatchers
Stilts and Avocets
Jacanas
Sandpipers, Phalaropes,
and Allies
Coursers and Pratincoles
Gulls, Terns, and Allies
Auks
Pigeons and Doves
Parrots and Allies
Cuckoos, Roadrunners,
and Allies
Barn Owls
Typical Owls
Nighthawks and Nightjars
Swifts
Hummingbirds
Trogons
Hoopoe
Kingfishers
Woodpeckers and Allies
Tyrant Flycatchers
Shrikes
Vireos
Crows and Jays
Larks
Swallows and Martins
Chickadees and Titmice
Penduline Tits (Verdin)
Long-tailed Tits (Bushtit)
Nuthatches
Creepers
Wrens
Dippers
Bulbuls
Kinglets
Old World Warblers and
Gnatcatchers
Old World Flycatchers
Thrushes
Babblers (Wrentit)
Mockingbirds and Thrashers
Starlings and Mynas
Accentors
Wagtails and Pipits
Waxwings
Silky-flycatchers
Olive Warbler
Wood-Warblers
Bananaquit
Tanagers
New World Sparrows
Cardinals and Allies
Blackbirds, Orioles, and Allies
Finches and Allies
Old World Sparrows
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SWIFTS
Family Apodidae
Chapter author: Charles T. Collins
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Vaux’s Swifts in northeastern Oregon. Condor 96:1016-1023.
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Ed. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
Collins, C. T. 1968. The comparative biology of two species of swifts
in Trinidad West Indies. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 11:257-320.
Collins, C. T. 1983. A reinterpretation of pamprodactyly in swifts;
a convergent grasping mechanism in vertebrates. Auk 100:735-737.
Collins, C. T. 1998. Food delivery and chick provisioning in cypseloidine
swifts. Bulletin of the British Ornithologist’ Club 118:108-112.
Collins, C. T. 2000. Subfamilies of the swifts (Apodiformes, Apodidae):
Schoutedenapus revisited. Durban Mus. Novitates 25:36-39.
Collins, C. T. and R. K. Brooke. 1976. A review of the swifts of the
genus Hirundapus (Aves: Apodidae). Los Angeles County Museum Contrib.
Sci. 282:1-22.
Collins, C. T. and R. Murphy. 1993. Echolocation acuity of the Palawan
Swiftlet (Aerodramus palawanensis). Avocetta 17:157-162.
Fischer, R. B. 1958. The breeding biology of the Chimney Swift, Chaetura
pelagica (Linnaeus). New York State Museum and Science Service Bulletin
368:1-139.
Lack, D. 1956. Swifts in a Tower. Methuen and Co., London. 239 pp.
Lack, D. and E. Lack. 1951. The breeding biology of the swift, Apus
apus. Ibis 93:501-546.
Lee, P. L., Clayton, D. H., Griffiths, R. and R. D. M. Paige. 1996.
Does behavior reflect phylogeny in swiftlets (Aves: Apodidae)? A test
using cytochrome b mitochondrial DNA sequences. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 93:7091-7096.
Marin, M. and F. G. Stiles. 1992. On the biology of five species of
swifts (Aves, Apodidae, Cypseloidinae) in Costa Rica. Proceedings of
the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology 4:287-351.
Medway, Lord. 1967. The swiftlets (Collocalia) of Niah Cave, Sarawak.
Part 1. Breeding biology. Ibis 104:45-66.
Medway, Lord. 1967. The swiftlets (Collocalia) of Niah Cave, Sarawak.
Part 2. Ecology and regulation of breeding. Ibis 104:228-245.
Medway, Lord and J. D. Pye. 1977. Echolocation and the systematics of
swiftlets. Pages 225-238 in Evolutionary Ecology (B. Stonehouse and
C. M. Perrins, Eds.) MacMillan, London.
Tarburton, M. K. 1986. Breeding biology of the White-rumped Swiftlet
in Fiji. Emu 86:214-227.
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