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Genus: Apus (20 species)

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Dark-rumped Swift (Apus acuticauda) Vulnerable Range: OR: ne India and Myanmar


Little Swift (Apus affinis) Range: AF, OR: Africa, sw Asia and India Kruger National Park, South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.


Little Swift (Apus affinis) Range: AF, OR: Africa, sw Asia and India Kenya
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Cape Verde Swift (Apus alexandri) Range: AF: Cape Verde Is. (all islands; s Macaronesia, w of n Africa)

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Common Swift (Apus apus) Range: PAL: widespread

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Malagasy Black Swift (Apus balstoni) Range: AF: Comoros and Madagascar


African Black Swift (Apus barbatus) Range: AF: s, e South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.

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Bates's Swift (Apus batesi) Range: AF: Sierra Leone to Ivory Coast; Cameroon to Gabon

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Forbes-Watson's Swift (Apus berliozi) Range: AF: e


Bradfield's Swift (Apus bradfieldi) Range: AF: sw Namibia
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.

A large swift.


White-rumped Swift (Apus caffer) Range: PAL, AF: s Iberian Peninsula, c Morocco, and sub-Saharan Africa Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve, Gauteng, South Africa
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Cook's Swift (Apus cooki) Range: OR: lowland Myanmar, n Thailand, Vietnam and Guangxi, China Doi Lang, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.


Horus Swift (Apus horus) Range: AF: Nigeria and Cameroon to Ethiopia through e DR Congo and Zambia to South Africa. Also sw Angola. South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.

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Blyth's Swift (Apus leuconyx) Range: PAL, OR: mid to high altitudes in Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and ne India

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Nyanza Swift (Apus niansae) Range: AF: e


House Swift (Apus nipalensis subfurcatus) Range: OR: also s Japan Singapore
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.

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Pacific Swift (Apus pacificus) Range: PAL: c Siberia and Mongolia through Kamchatka (se Russia) and Japan

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Pallid Swift (Apus pallidus) Range: PAL, AF: s Europe, Arabian Pen. and n AF

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Salim Ali's Swift (Apus salimalii) Range: PAL: e Tibetan Plateau and adjacent w Sichuan

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Fernando Po Swift (Apus sladeniae) Range: AF: sw Nigeria, w Cameroon, w Angola and Bioko

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Plain Swift (Apus unicolor) Range: AF: Madeira (all islands) and Canary Is. (all islands; nc to c Macaronesia, nw of n Africa); may breed adjacent Moroccan coast

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