Swifts

House Swift

Apus nipalensis

The House Swift (Apus nipalensis) is a 30 g town and farmland bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It migrates.

Family

Swifts

Order

Apodiformes

Weight

30 g

Habitat

Human Modified

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

20

Recorded in Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, China, Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, Cambodia, Philippines, MO, Myanmar, Laos, Bhutan, Australia, Timor-Leste.

Where to see it: Lalmatia house (Bangladesh); 渠口 (Macao); Zonas Ecológicas do Cotai-II 路氹城生態保護區-二區 (Macao); Rajshahi University Campus (Rajshahi) (Bangladesh); Praia de Nossa Senora de Esperanca 龍環葡韻 (Macao).

Photo: (c) Lawrence Hylton, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist