Pallid Swift (Apus pallidus)

Pallid Swift (Apus pallidus)

About Pallid Swift (Apus pallidus)

Kingdom: Animals
Phylum: Chordates
Class: Birds
Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts
Family: Swifts

The pallid swift is a swift. Swifts have very short legs which they use only for clinging to vertical surfaces. The genus name Apus is Latin for a swift, thought by the ancients to be a type of swallow with no feet, and pallidus is Latin for "pale". Like other swifts they never settle voluntarily on the ground, but spend most of their lives in the air, living on the insects they catch in their beaks. They drink on the wing.

Source: Wikipedia