Little Swift (Apus affinis) [XC345969]
by Peter Boesman from Taita-Taveta County, Kenya (call)
Little Swift (Apus) [XC806822]
by GABRIEL LEITE from Idawlon, Chtouka Ait Baha Province, Souss-Massa, Morocco (flight call, song)
Subspecies
Forms superspecies with House Swift (Apus nipalensis), with which often considered conspecific. Birds of sub-Saharan Africa formerly treated as subspecies abessynicus [sic], and those of coastal Limpopo and Transkei as subspecies gyratus.
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
galilejensis (Antinori, 1855) - North-western Africa east to Pakistan, and south of Sahara in eastern Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and north-western Somalia.
aerobates Brooke, 1969 - Mauritania east to Somalia and south to Transkei (eastern South Africa).
bannermani Hartert, 1928 - Bioko, Príncipe and Sío Tomé, in Gulf of Guinea.
theresae Meinertzhagen, R, 1949 - Western and southern Angola to southern Zambia and south through southern Africa.
affinis (Gray, 1830) - Southern Somalia to northern Mozambique (including Zanzibar and Pemba), and east to India south of Himalayas and east of Pakistan; some birds winter in India and presumably Africa.
singalensis Madarász, 1911 - Southern India and Sri Lanka.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet