Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica) COSEWIC assessment and status report
Official title: COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica in Canada
Table of contents
- Assessment Summary
- Executive Summary
- COSEWIC History, Mandate, Membership and Definitions
- Lists of Figures and Tables
- Species Information
- Distribution
- Habitat
- Biology
- Population Size and Trends
- Limiting Factors and Threats
- Special Significance of the Species
- Protection
- Technical Summary
- Acknowledgements and Information Sources
- Biographical Summaries of Report Writers
COSEWIC
Assessment and Status Report
on the
Chimney Swift
Chaetura Pelagica
in Canada

Threatened
2007
COSEWIC
Committee on the Status
of Endangered Wildlife
in Canada

COSEPAC
Comité sur la situation
des espèces en péril
au Canada
COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:
COSEWIC 2007. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vii + 49 pp.
(Species at Risk Status Reports)
Production Note:
COSEWIC acknowledges Jean Gauthier, Mark Dionne, Josée Potvin, Mike Cadman and Daniel Busby for writing the status report on the Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica in Canada. COSEWIC also gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canadian Wildlife Service, Quebec Region for the preparation of this report. The COSEWIC report review and editing was overseen by Richard Cannings Co-chair (Birds), of the COSEWIC Birds Species Specialist Subcommittee, with input from members of COSEWIC. That review may have resulted in changes and additions to the initial version of the report.
For additional copies contact:
COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa ON
K1A 0H3
Tel.: 819–953–3215
Fax: 819–994–3684
E-mail: COSEWIC/COSEPAC@ec.gc.ca
http://www.cosewic.gc.ca
Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur le Martinet ramoneur (Chaetura pelagica) au Canada.
Cover illustration:
Chimney Swift -- Jean Gauthier
© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2007
Catalogue No.: CW69-14/468-2007E-PDF
ISBN: 978-0-662-45973-6
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