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 LC    Little Swift* Id (Atlas):
    Apus affinis

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Little Swift, House Swift(!)

Family
Apodidae (Swifts)

Size
12 - 15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gray, 1830)

Range (Guide)
Afghanistan (B), Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, India (B), Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Israel (B), Jordan (B) (P), Kenya, Lebanon (B), Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan (B), Rwanda, Sâo Tomé e Principe (B), Saudi Arabia (B), Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Spain (B), Sri Lanka (B), Sudan, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic (B), Tajikistan (B), Tanzania [United Republic of], Timor-Leste (B) (NB), Togo, Tunisia, Turkey (B), Turkmenistan (B), Uganda, United Arab Emirates (P), Uzbekistan (B), Yemen (B), Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Australia, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Greece, Iraq (NB), Ireland, Italy, Kuwait, Maldives, Malta, Oman, Portugal, Qatar, Seychelles, Sweden, United Kingdom.

Unknown to Azerbaijan.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (25)...)

 
Little Swift (Apus affinis) [XC279848]
     by Peter Boesman from St Lucia area, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa (call)

 
Little Swift (Apus affinis) [XC253699]
     by Peter Boesman from Chipiona, C\u00e1diz, Andaluc\u00eda, Spain (flight call)

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.



References
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Files:
JPG files for Little Swift (Apus affinis) - 10 files


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