Swifts

Common Swift

Apus apus

The Common Swift (Apus apus) is a 38 g town and farmland bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It migrates.

Family

Swifts

Order

Apodiformes

Weight

38 g

Habitat

Human Modified

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

100

Recorded in Sweden, United Kingdom, Spain, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Finland, Portugal, Belgium, Israel, Russia, Italy, Czechia, Poland, Turkey, Switzerland, Greece, Estonia, Austria, Ireland, Bulgaria, South Africa, Ukraine, China, Cyprus, Iran, Serbia, Croatia, Morocco, Georgia, Hungary, Palestine, Namibia, Isle of Man, Lithuania, Ghana, Slovakia, Belarus, Mongolia, Armenia, Romania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Kenya, Kazakhstan, India, Slovenia, Azerbaijan, Tanzania, Uganda, Botswana, Uzbekistan, Jordan, Zambia, Kyrgyzstan, Malta, Zimbabwe, Tajikistan, Åland, Andorra, Tunisia, Montenegro, Moldova, Egypt, JE, Saudi Arabia, Albania, Iraq, North Macedonia, Algeria, Nigeria, Kuwait, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Malawi, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, VA, Mozambique, Republic of the Congo, Liberia, GI, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Bosnia and Herz., MC, Oman, Benin, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Angola, Gabon, United States, LI.

Where to see it: Piazza San Pietro (Holy See); Vatican City (Holy See); Сквер 6-ї лікарні (6th city hospital garden square) (Ukraine); San Marino (general area) (San Marino); TM-Ashgabat hills by Yyldyz Hotel (Turkmenistan).

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