Little Swift (Apus affinis)
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About Little Swift (Apus affinis)
- Kingdom: Animals
- Phylum: Chordates
- Class: Birds
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts
- Family: Swifts
The little swift is a small species of swift found in Africa and southwestern Asia, and are vagrants and local breeders in southern Europe. They are found both in urban areas and at rocky cliffs where they build nests in a way typical of all members of the order Apodiformes. The genus name Apus is Latin for a swift, thought by the ancients to be a type of swallow without feet. The Latin specific affinis means similar to or related to, but in this case the species that the little swift supposedly resembles is not clear from the description. A population formerly considered to be an eastern subspecies of little swift is now separated as a distinct species, the house swift.
Source: Wikipedia
Visits
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2003-01-19
Hardap Dam, Namibia -
2013-11-02
Central Island National Park, Kenya -
2017-01-01
Road to Mburo, Uganda -
2017-01-02
Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda -
2017-01-09
Queen Elizabeth II National Park, Uganda -
2017-10-30
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenya -
2017-11-24
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenya -
2025-01-30
Maasai Steppe, Tanzania -
2025-01-31
Monduli, Tanzania -
2025-02-02
South Pare Mountains, Tanzania -
2025-02-03
Mkomazi National Park, Tanzania -
2025-02-03
West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania -
2025-02-05
Amani Forest Reserve, Tanzania -
2025-02-06
Amani Forest Reserve, Tanzania -
2025-02-07
Amani Forest Reserve, Tanzania -
2025-02-18
Marrakesh, Morocco -
2025-02-25
Oued Aoufous, Morocco
