Swifts

Little Swift

Apus affinis

The Little Swift (Apus affinis) is a 23 g town and farmland bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It migrates.

Family

Swifts

Order

Apodiformes

Weight

23 g

Habitat

Human Modified

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

53

Recorded in India, South Africa, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Namibia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Spain, Gambia, Senegal, Pakistan, Israel, eSwatini, Mozambique, Zambia, Cameroon, Rwanda, Turkey, Botswana, Saudi Arabia, Sao Tome and Principe, Gabon, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eq. Guinea, Malawi, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Palestine, Liberia, Madagascar, Burkina Faso, Benin, Taiwan, Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Togo, Somalia, Guinea, Netherlands, United Kingdom, EH, Tunisia, Djibouti, Jordan, Iran.

Where to see it: Mansoor Hotel (Somalia); Ambassador Hotel (Somalia); Libreville · Résidence de France (Gabon); AF-Khost-Unnamed Road (Afghanistan); Parque de N´Batonha (Lagoa do PNUD) (Guinea-Bissau).

Photo: (c) Afsar Nayakkan, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist