Pallid Swift (Apus pallidus)

Other Names (World)
Pallid Swift, Mouse-colored Swift, Mouse-coloured Swift

Family
Apodidae (Swifts)

Size
16.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Shelley, 1855)

Habitat
Sea-cliffs and rocky offshore islands. From sea-level - 2,700 m.

Range (Guide)

Albania (B), Algeria, Bahrain, Bulgaria (B), Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic (NB), Chad, C�te dIvoire (NB), Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B), Cyprus (B), Djibouti, Egypt, France (B), Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar (B), Greece (B) (P), Guinea (NB), Guinea-bissau, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (B) (NB) (P), Israel (B), Italy (B), Jordan (B) (P), Kuwait (B), Lebanon (B), Liberia (NB), Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B), Mali, Malta (B), Mauritania, Monaco (B), Montenegro (B), Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Oman (B), Pakistan, Portugal (B), Qatar, Saudi Arabia (B), Serbia (B), Sierra Leone, Spain (B), Sudan, Switzerland (B), Syrian Arab Republic (B), Togo, Tunisia, Turkey (B), United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara (B).

Vagrant to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Denmark, Hungary, Maldives, Norway, Senegal, South Africa, Sweden, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia.

Unknown to Slovenia (B).

Population
Estimated population is 250,000 - 2,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (304)...)

Pallid Swift (Apus pallidus) [XC423560]
by Cedric Mroczko from Sevilla, Spain (duet)

Pallid Swift (Apus) [XC423781]
by Miguel Rodr\u00edguez Esteban from \u00c1rea Metropolitana de Sevilla (near Sevilla), Sevilla, Andaluc\u00eda, Spain (flight call)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with African Swift (Apus barbatus), Forbes-Watson's Swift (Apus berliozi) and Bradfield's Swift (Apus bradfieldi). Subspecies somalicus of Nyanza Swift (Apus niansae) formerly placed in this species.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

brehmorum Hartert, 1901 - Western Palearctic from Portugal east to Turkey (except Dalmatian coast), and from Morocco to north-western Egypt, including Canary Is and Madeira. Winters in Sahel.
illyricus Tschusi, 1907 - Dalmatian coast and possibly eastern Italian coast. Winters in Sahel.
pallidus (Shelley, 1855) - Banc d'Arguin through Sahara to Middle East and Pakistan; migratory populations winter in Sahel, with limited wintering coastal Pakistan.

References
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Files:

JPG files for Pallid Swift (Apus pallidus) - 10 files

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