Summary description from Wikipedia:

Chaetura in languages:

Bokmål

Amerikanålehaler

English

Chaetura Swifts

English

New World Needle-tailed Swifts

English

New World Spine-tailed Swifts

English

American Needle-tailed Swifts

English

American Needletail Swifts

English

New World Needletail Swifts

Finnish

piippukiitäjät

Japanese

アメリカハリオアマツバメ属

Russian

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Parent Taxon

• Apodidae

Sibling Taxa

• Aerodramus
• Aeronautes
• Apus
• Chaetura
• Collocalia
• Cypseloides
• Cypsiurus
• Hirundapus
• Hydrochous
• Mearnsia
• Neafrapus
• Panyptila
• Rhaphidura
• Schoutedenapus
• Streptoprocne
• Tachornis
• Telacanthura
• Zoonavena

Child Taxa

• Chaetura andrei
• Chaetura brachyura
• Chaetura chapmani
• Chaetura cinereiventris
• Chaetura egregia
• Chaetura fumosa
• Chaetura martinica
• Chaetura meridionalis
• Chaetura pelagica
• Chaetura spinicaudus
• Chaetura vauxi

Top Observation Places

• Xalapa de Enríquez