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title: "Vaux's Swift"
description: "Chaetura vauxi — Uccelli. Vaux's swift (Chaetura vauxi) is a small swift native to North America, Central America, and northern South America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/vaux-s-swift
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Vaux's Swift

> Chaetura vauxi — Uccelli. Vaux's swift (Chaetura vauxi) is a small swift native to North America, Central America, and northern South America.

- Scientific name: *Chaetura vauxi*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 3805
- Wikidata: [Q1262078](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1262078)
- iNaturalist taxon: [6557](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/6557)

## Names

- en: Vaux's Swift
- de: Graubauchsegler
- es: Vencejo de Vaux
- fr: Martinet de Vaux
- nl: Vaux' gierzwaluw
- pl: Kominiarczyk szarobrzuchy

## Countries with the most observations

US (1820), MX (543), CA (305), SV (50), CR (44), NI (32), GT (31), HN (21), PA (12), BZ (5)

## Summary

Vaux's swift (Chaetura vauxi) is a small swift native to North America, Central America, and northern South America. It was named for the American scientist William Sansom Vaux.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaux%27s_swift

## Photo

![Vaux's Swift](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/vaux-s-swift/medium.jpg)

Photo: Erin Springinotic · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/135212745

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/vaux-s-swift?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).